430207 - Unaccounted airmen - 7-2-1943

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration for:

A - Died on active service:
Sgt John PIGGOTT - 550465.

B - Killed on active service:
Cpl Albert W. TALBOT - 933448 - age 29.

C - Not found in Flight archives:
LAC Edwin J. BADKIN - 1152741 - age 26;
Cpl Walter J. NOBBS - 40776 - age 58, and
Cpl Walter E. WINNETT - 1303214 - age 35.

D - Also looking for GRO-listing of:
LAC Joseph J.T. BERUBE - RCAF R/125771, buried Gander, Newfoundland (name not found in Flight archives).

E - Proposed aircraft losses:
Beaufighter I - T4734 - 236 Sqn - crashed in forced landing Westhampnett.
Defiant I - V1134 - 285 Sqn - flew into ground Plumley, Cheshire.
Henley I - L3390 - 1604 Flt - dived into ground Mawdan (sic), near St. Eval (already as a casualty on this a/c: P/O [Pilot] S. ROGERS - RCAF J/16434).
Master III - W8826 - 5 (P)AFU - crashed in forced landing 1 mile W of Congleton, Cheshire.

Nota bene:
It's known that many airmen this day died in an accident with a passengers buss, most of them of # 51 Sqn:
Cpl H. HANSON - 992659 * AC1 A.J. JAMES - 1555849 * AC2 H. LARMAN - 1759180 * Sgt L.G. MOSELEY - 944593 (dow 8-2-1943) * Sgt (Ag) G.B. NOBLE - 648188 * AC1 D. SMOLLAN - 1520153 * Sgt (Ag) J.T. TREMAIN - 1261299 * AC2 N. WARD - 1508955.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[dennis_burke]

I think Cpl. W J Nobbs is listed as Cpl. W J Hobbs in Flight, listed as DOAS., CWGC don;t seem to have a W J Hobs in their database for 1941-1943.

No luck with the others though.

Berube is listed as DOAS in RCAF Casualty list 599 in the Lethbridge Herald printed 14 June 1943.

[dennis_burke]

W J Nobbs registered Northumberland Central district, Northumberland

W E Winnett, Smethwick district, Staffordshire

E J Badkin, Edmonton district, Middlesex

[dennis_burke]

Albert W Talbot - St Austell Cornwall age 28

John Piggott - Aylesbury Buckinghamshire age 23.

[alieneyes]

D - Also looking for GRO-listing of:
LAC Joseph J.T. BERUBE - RCAF R/125771, buried Gander, Newfoundland (name not found in Flight archives).

Self inflicted gunshot wound to the skull.

[jonheyworth]

UPGRADE to James Currie R 204503, he died at the Riverdale isolation hospital, Toronto of cerebrospinal meningitis

[jonheyworth]

Joseph Jean Thomas Berube R 125771 , died of a self inflicted wound from his service rifle to the head 400 yards from RCAF Gander near Gander Lake. He had been suffering from a chronic, non tubercular lung complaint

[jonheyworth]

Stanley Schofield 618953 , attached to Number 54 RSU, died in Number 22 MRS at 15:30 Hours of toxic liver neurosis

[jonheyworth]

Walter John Nobbs 40776 , attached to Number 4 AGS, died at his home address, at Whalton, Morpeth, at approximately 05:40 Hours of a cerebral haemorrhage due to arteriosclerosis with his wife, Mrs. E.L. Hobbs present

[jonheyworth]

John Piggott 550465 | attached to 13 OTU | was admitted seriously ill to RAF hospital Halton on 39 December 1942 where he died at 12:25 Hours of miliary tuberculosis