430422 - Unaccounted airmen - 22-4-1943

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration for:

A - Killed on active service:
F/O (Fl.Instr.) John H. BARNES - 120407 (from N.Ireland).

B - Died on active service:
AC1 Arnold DALE - 1537224 - age37;
AC2 Edward DENSHAM - 1831265 - age 37;
AC1 Frank KELLER - 1509894 - 914 (Balloon) Sqn (Wythall, Birmingham), and
Cpl Kenneth R. WHITTAKER - 1084022.

C - Not found in Flight Global:
Cpl George A. BOLLAND - 958487 - 167 Sqn (Ludham, Norfolk).

D - Miscellaneous:
Looking for GRO-listing of:
F/Lt Donald N. GALLAI-HATCHARD - 115639 - (?) PRU - KOAS - buried Medjez-el-Bab War Cem., Tunisia, and
F/Lt Gilbert A. HOUGHTON - 81172 - DOAS - buried Bône War Cem., Algeria.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[AlanW]

Henk,
GRO only gives PRU as unit for Hatchard.
Houghton, 1 PDC.

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Alan.

Forgot to add a proposed aircraft loss for this day in my first message:
Oxford I - BG208 - 14 (P)AFU - flew into ground at night 2 miles W of Ossington (already as a casualty on this a/c: Sgt [Pilot] Henry F. PUDER - RCAF R/81378).

Regards,
Henk.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Barnes,25, registered at Southwell, Nottinghamshire.This is the same place as Puder and may put Barnes on Oxford BG208
Dale,37, registered at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
Densham,37, registered at Newark, Nottinghamshire
Keller,36,registered at Birmingham
Whittaker,32, registered at Stafford, Staffordshire
Bolland, 21, registered at Northallerton,N Yorkshire
Regards
Dick

[Henk Welting]

As ever, thanks Dick for your prompt and excellent help.
Regards,
Henk.

[dennis_burke]

Found Bolland just in the corner of my eye in Flight, DOAS scanned as Cpl. G\ A. Boltsrld;

[Leendert]

Henk,

F/Lt Gallai-Hatchard was in the RAF Film Unit and following story says he was killed during air operations in Tunisia: http://www.thewarillustrated.info/164/movie-cameramen-in-the-front-line-of-battle.asp.
No further detail about his death however.

Groet,

Leendert

[dennis_burke]

Gallai-Hatchard is listed Killed in Action, Not KOAS in Flight. I wonder if he might have been on an American Aircraft perhaps. Or maybe some ground assignment.

He is listed KIA with only one other person in Flight Casualty list, F/Sgt D B Elliot of 55 Sqn who is listed dead 25th April 1943. Unconnected I'd suppose.

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Dennis & Leendert for additional info.
Regards,
Henk.

[davew]

Henk

can confirm Puder on the Oxford

rfegards

DaveW

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Dave for confirmation PUDER.

Henk.

[noggin1969]

DENSHAM, EDWARD
Rank: Aircraftman 2nd Class
Service No: 1831265
Date of Death: 22/04/1943
Stationed at RAF Ossington , died at Newark General Hospital from peritonitis due to a ruptured appendix.

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

Just to clear up the fate of :

115639 F/Lt Donald Nevill GALLAI-HATCHARD RAFVR.

Thursday, 22 April 1943.

US Casualties.

97th BS/47th BG
Douglas A-20B 41-3239

Hit by flak at Massicault 1445-1525.

1/Lt Victor E. GAULTIERE and two Wounded in Action.
115639 F/Lt (Photographer) Donald Nevill GALLAI-HATCHARD RAFVR - Killed in Action.

See:
A History of the Mediterranean Air War 1940 - 1945 Vol.3. Tunisia and the End in Africa - Nov. 1942 - May 1943.
Shores,Christopher et al.
London:Grub Street,2016.
p.527

Col.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

F/O (Fl.Instr.) John H. BARNES - 120407 - Puder's R.C.A.F records do not contain any information about any other casualties of Oxford BG208, but Barnes' Grave Registration Report Form confirms his unit as 14 (P) A.F.U.

AC1 Frank KELLER - 1509894 - the Nottingham Evening Post of April 26th 1943 carried the following announcement:

KELLER - 22nd inst., Frank, R.A.F., passed away Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Brimingham. Peace after great suffering.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

UPGRADE to Max Ronald Maksymetz R 250959, reoorting for training on 3rd April, he was confined to the station hospital at Number 2 ITS on 4th April suffering from scarlet fever and died of heart development caused by high scarlet fever after less that one day's non hospitalised RCAF service

[jonheyworth]

Robert Sydney Hills 1181269 , crashed in Spitfire Vc JK 808 at Maiduguri airfield at 07:45 hours, dying of his injuries ten minutes later

[jonheyworth]

William Albert Garrett 100089 , a driver MT attached to Number 7 C&M Party, RAF Madhaiganj, was murdered at the station on the night of 22/23 April

[jonheyworth]

William James Jones 1458925 , attached to C Flight RAF Regiment HQ DAF , was accidently burnt on 19 April when his bivouac caught fire. Admitted to Number 48 General hospital with extensive burns of the face, chest and all limbs, he required resusiatation and was dressed with Vaseline gauze and given plasma but he died of acute toxameia of his burns

[jonheyworth]

George Albert Bolland 958487, attached to 167 Squadron , was admitted dangerously ill to Mount Vernon hospital, Northwood on 18 March , where he died of a tumor of the hip with sarcoma of the femur and secondary deposits in the lung

[malcolm_raf]

Hi Jon

"George Albert Bolland 958487, attached to 167 Squadron , was admitted dangerously ill to Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood on 18 March , where he died of a tumor of the hip with sarcoma of the femur and secondary deposits in the lung"

I suspect he was moved to Northallerton Hospital as that is where his death is registered

Malcolm

[jonheyworth]

Charles Edward Eric Smith 1717041 , attached to Number 170 Wing, was killed on duty when his motorcycle skidded under a lorry whilst overtaking on the Sikhar to Khumbirgram road

[jonheyworth]

Arnold Dale 1537224 | attached to RAF Uxbridge| died in Barnsley Hall EMS hospital, Bromsgrove, of mediastinal lymphosarcoma

[jonheyworth]

Kenneth Reid Whittaker 1084022 | attached to 30 MU | was killed in a MT accident at Seighford, his body being removed to SSQ at RAF Hixon

[jonheyworth]

Frank Keller 1509894 | died at 01:45 Hours in the Queen Elizabeth hospital, Birmingham, of carcinamatosis with his wife, Mrs. E.Keller, of Carrisbrook Avenue, Beeston, Notts, at his bedside