430216 - Unaccounted airwomen and airmen - 16-2-1943

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration for:

A - Killed on active service:
ACW2 Patricia BAXTER - 2141264;
Sgt (Pilot) Douglas CAMPBELL - 535179;
Asst. Section Offr (WAAF) Joan P. CHANDLER - 6312, and
ACW2 Irene D. COLLETT - 2148006.

B - Not found in Flight archives:
LACW Rosina A. FROST - 2069724.

C - Died on active service:
W/O Frederick C. GALLOP - 346921 - age 46, and
LACW Betty T. HASPREY - 471993.

D - Died of wounds or injuries received on active service:
LAC Arthur LEWIS - 1126912 - 958 (Balloon) Sqn (Green Willows, Sketty Park, Swansea with a detachment at Port Talbot).

E - Looking for GRO-listing of:
AC2 Wilfred HALLWORTH - 1093796 - age 20 buried Dely Ibrahim War Cem., Algeria (not found in Flight archives).

F - Proposed aircraft losses:
Magister I - T9827 - 317 Sqn - crashed in forced landing left bank of Trent at Adlingfleet, Yorkshire.
Oxford I - V4032 - 17 (P)AFU - flew into high ground at night near Berwick, St.James, Wiltshire.
Oxford II - V3603 - 3 (P)AFU - crashed on approach Bibury.
Tiger Moth II - T5955 - 15 EFTS - flew into ground Solway Sands.
Tiger Moth II - T7333 - 11 EFTS - crashed in forced landing Luncarty, 4 miles NNE of Perth, Perthshire.
Tiger Moth II - T8251 - 16 EFTS - spun into ground Bannell Farm, Mickelover, Derbyshire.
Typhoon I.B - DN422 - Del Flt - crashed on take-off Sawbridgworth.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[AlanW]

Henk,
Hallworth listed with 107 R & BU, whatever that was!

[COL BRUGGY]

Henk/Alan,

Re Hallworth:

Most likely, No.107 Repair & Salvage Unit.

Formed c. 9-10-42 in UK for 'Operation Torch'; 13-11-42 arrived Algiers, to BLIDA; redesignated No.2(NA) ARU 28-3-43.

See:
Royal Air Force Flying Training and Support Units/Sturtivant et al. p.258

Col.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
3 of your Ladies are registered at W Glamorgan and may be connected to a single incident. Patricia Baxter,19,Joan P Chandler,21 and Irene D Collett,19
Campbell,24,registered at Salisbury, Wiltshire
Gallop,46, registered at Uxbridge,Middlesex
Betty T Hasprey,23, registered at Evesham,Worcestershire
Lewis,37, registered at Swansea, Glamorgan
Didn,t find Rosina A Frost
Regards
Dick

[vrajm]

Hi Henk,
a pilot of the Typhoon DN422 was F/L M.J. Gray. He was unhurt.
Regards
Mojmir

[alclark]

T5955 & T8251 were both recorded as none fatal accidents, a Sgt Clark & Sgt Fields were flying T5955 and T8251 was being flown by Army Corporal R.W. Ryan (2589852 - Glider Pilot Regiment).

[paulmcmillan]

South West Wales was bombed on the 17th Feb 1943 and a number of lives lost. Prehaps this links the 3 WAAFs

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Picking up from Paul's info about the bombing in S W Wales it could also involve Lewis in Swansea
Regards
Dick

[Henk Welting]

Thanks all for your much apppreciated help.
Dick: Could the death registration for CAMPBELL (Salisbury, Wiltshire) match was the Oxford crash location (near Berwick, St.James, Wiltshire) ?
Regards,
Henk.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
I missed that possibility, Berwick St James was within the Salisbury Registration area at the time
Regards
Dick

[Ross_McNeill]

Hi Henk,

Campbell confirmed by F1180 as sole fatality on Oxford V4032

Regards
Ross

[markpeelgb]

South West Wales was bombed on the 17th Feb 1943 and a number of lives lost. Prehaps this links the 3 WAAFs

Just to confirm that the three WAAFs were killed in the bombing of Fairwood Common Aerodrome, Swansea: there is a brief description here (http://www.explore-gower.co.uk/explore/gower-landmarks/swansea-airport-fairwood)

[Martyn A Critchlow]

LACW Betty T. HASPREY - 471993 - accidental death, died in an RAF hospital after she was riding a cycle that was involved in an accident with a car at Weston-sub-Edge near The Segrave Arms.
(Gloucestershire Echo, 18 February 1943)

Martyn

[wwrsimon]

Hello

ACW2 Patricia BAXTER - 2141264;
Asst. Section Offr (WAAF) Joan P. CHANDLER - 6312, and
ACW2 Irene D. COLLETT - 2148006.

The Sunday Mirror of March 7th 1943 reported the following:

BOMB ENDS LOVES STORY
"I'm keeping my fingers crossed, the war will end one day." These were the last words written by 19 year old W.A.A.F. Patricia Baxter to her parents and Hannah, her childhood nurse, of Mansfield Rod, Ilfracombe.
The same night a bomb hit Pat's billet in South Wales. She was one of three killed. Just before last Christmas her sweetheart, now Sergeant-Pilot Roy Bond, came home from Canada, and they became engaged.

LACW Rosina A. FROST - 2069724 - the Western Gazette of February 26th 1943 reported the following:

PORTLAND
"WAAF" DIES IN IRELAND - Twnety fieve years old L.A.C.W. Rosina Alice Frost, W.A.A.F., one of the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. W. Frost, of 30, Grove Road, died in hospital in Northern Ireland last week. Her parents made the journey of soemthing like 400 miles to see her, and arrived a few hours before she passed away.

W/O Frederick Cleveland GALLOP - 346921 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at Mount Vernon Hospital, Ruislip.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Rosina Alice Frost 2069724 , a cook and butcher attached to RAF Limavady in Coastal Command was admitted dangerously ill to the Roe Valley EMS hospital where she died of tuberculosis meningitis

[jonheyworth]

Patricia Baxter 2141264 , attached to RAF Fairwood Common

[jonheyworth]

Frederick Cleveland Gallop 346921 , attached to the A&AEE , died in Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, at 22:15 Hours of sarcoma of the right pleurus and neoplasm of the lung

[jonheyworth]

Wilfred Hallworth 1093796 , attached to Number 107 RSU , was admitted dangerously ill to Number 94 General hospital on 23 January at 11:00 Hours and died at 14:45 Hours the following day of scarlet fever

[jonheyworth]

Wilfred Hallworth 1093796 , attached to Numberr 107 RSU , was admitted dangerously ill to Number 94 General hospital at 11:00 Hours and died at 14:45 Hours the following day of scarlet fever

[jonheyworth]

Clarence Fred Brown 1018477 , died in Number 5 General hospital between 23:00 Hours and 04:00 Hours of suffocation

[jonheyworth]

William Samuel Mills 1468029 , attached to 320 MU, died in the British Military hospital, Karachi of dystentry

[jonheyworth]

Patricia Baxter 2141624 | was killed in her billet at RAF Fairwood Common in an air raid