430314 - Unaccounted airmen - 14-3-1943

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration for:

A - Killed on active service:
LAC (Obs u/t) Alfred J. ALDHAM - 1612114;
Sgt (WOp/Ag) Leslie A. KNIGHT - 1375667;
F/O (Pilot) William A.L. LOVE - 124512, and
LAC James N. SPENCER - 1600334.

B - Died on active service:
AC1 Dermott G.F. ELLIOTT - 1624356, and
AC1 Ronald R. FULFORD - 1410761 - age 21.

C - Proposed aircraft losses:
Anson I - N5369 - 6 AOS - dived into ground Quedgeley, Gloucestershire.
Beaufighter VI - V8645 - 301 FTU - bellylanded Lyneham.
Blenheim V - BA107 - 132 OTU - crashed in forced landing at night SW of Athelstaneford, East Lothian (already as a casualty on this a/c: F/O N.B. BURT - RCAF J/13028).
Spitfire IV - BR670 - 543 Sqn - bellylanded St.Eval.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[AlanW]

Henk,
Knight, Love and Spencer, all Gloucester R.
Fulford...Pembroke.
Nothing for Aldham or Elliott in GRO Eng/Wales or Scottish records.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
For Knight ,Love, and Spencer the Gloucester Rural area includes Quedgeley which might place them on board Anson N5369
Regards
Dick

[malcolm_raf]

Hi Henk

According to Warner, Burt was the only casualty on BA107.

Malcolm

[Henk Welting]

Good harvest again for a Wednesday-afternoon; thanks to all.
Henk.

[Ross_McNeill]

Hi Henk,

F1180 confirms Love as pilot of Anson N5329. 4 killed in total.

Regards
Ross

[wwrsimon]

Hello

LAC (Obs u/t) Alfred J. ALDHAM - 1612114 - he's listed as being with 6 A.O.S. on the Graves Registration Report Form, and the Burials Register for Haresfield lists his burial on the 18th. The next entry is William Arthur Loftus Love on the 19th. Both ar listed as being at R.A.F. Station Moreton Valence. Looks like Aldham's the fourth casualty on the Anson?

AC1 Dermott G.F. ELLIOTT - 1624356 - the Liverpool Evening Express of March 19th 1943 reported the following:

WAR CASUALTIES
A/C1 Dermott Gerald (Derek) Francis Elliott (19), R.A.F., Coosheen, Prestatyn, lost his life on active service in Northern Ireland.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Ronald Richard Fulford 1410761 , attached to Number 10 Radio School, was admitted dangerously ill to the Woodbine House EMS Hospital on 12 March, where he died of cellulitis and septacemia

[jonheyworth]

Dermot Gerald Francis Elliott 162356 , attached to 131 OTU, was dangerously injured at Killadeas, County Fermanagh, when he fell over accidently , dying the same day of a fractured skull in County Fermanagh hospital at 12:20 Hours

[jonheyworth]

Edwin Archibald Campbell 31238 | drowned whilst swimming off duty in the Burdekin river at 13:00 Hours at the Gainsford Station homestead, Queensland, where he was living out