400720 - Unaccounted airman - 20-7-1940

[Henk Welting]

What caused the death of F/O (Pilot) Charles W. FURSE - 70233 - killed on active service (Flight Global), buried Nottingham Soutern Cem., W.Bridgford, Nottinghamshire (UK1847).

Proposed aircraft losses for this day:

Magister I - L8287 - 13 MU - hit building low flying and crashed Letchworth Gasworks, Hertfordshire.
(for this aircraft already have as a casualty: P/O Stanley P. LODGE - 77308)
Oxford I - R6320 - 3 FTS - crashed at Bibury.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
The death of a Charles W Furse ,26,is registered at Hitchin Hertfordshire in the 3rd Qtr of 1940, which would seem to point to the Magister
Regards
Dick

[paulmcmillan]

Hi Henk
The death of a Charles W Furse ,26,is registered at Hitchin Hertfordshire in the 3rd Qtr of 1940, which would seem to point to the Magister
Regards
Dick

Dick - To confirm is P/O Stanley P. LODGE the next name on the same register?

Paul

[Dick]

Hi Paul
"Dick - To confirm is P/O Stanley P. LODGE the next name on the same register?" The simple answer is no but I do use Ancestry.co.uk where the register viewed is purely alphabetical and an"L" would be on a totally different page. The pages are what you get if you used the books in Middleton Place in Islington.
On the appropriate page for the Name there is a Stanley P Lodge age 22 registered at Hitchin
Regards
Dick

[paulmcmillan]

Dick - OK thanks so both on the same date and location - looks like it was the Magister

[Henk Welting]

Thanks all for your help.

Henk.

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

400720 - Unaccounted Airmen - 20-07-1940

From Henk's list -

UK
BENNETT, Robert William - AC2c - 926312 - RAFVR.
Scampton (St. John the Baptist) Churchyard, Lincolnshire.
Cause of death ? Reportedly in Hospital as a result of an automobile accident the happened on the previous Saturday.

From CWGC -

EGYPT
POWNING, Richard John Redfern - P/O - 42321 - RAF.
Alexandria ( Chatby ) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.
Wellesley - K7789 - 113 Sqn.

DENMARK
MILLER, Reginald Talbot - Sgt -551536 - RAF.
NIXON, Percy Dryden - Sgt - 580671 - RAF.
These two airmen rest at Skagen Cemetery, Denmark.
They were crew of Hampden I - L4087 - 44 Sqn.

GERMANY
LEES, Harold Frederick Archdale - P/O - 78545 - RAFVR.
Kiel War Cemetery, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Wellington I - L7795 - 9 Sqn.

CURRY, Stephen Edward Frederick - F/Lt - 37006 - RAF.
HARRIS, Aubrey John - Sgt - 534211 - RAF.
LEWIS, Ronald Norman - Sgt - 636576 - RAF.
TANSLEY, John - Sgt - 633130 - RAF.
These four airmen were crew of Whitley V - P5007 - 51 Sqn.

CAMERON, Edward Colin Joseph (New Zealand) - P/O - 36237 - RAF.
CUMMING, Gordon Murray - Sgt - 743076 - RAFVR.
OWEN, John Lewis - Sgt - 391332 - RNZAF.
ANDERSON, Ronald Alexander John - F/Sgt - 36139 - RNZAF.
WATSON, Samuel Miles MacKenzie (New Zealand) - F/O - 77026 - RAFVR - MiD.
These five airmen were crew of Wellington Ic - R3165 - 75 Sqn

The nine airmen named above are all at rest at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

CARNEGIE, David Stuart - P/O - 77350 - RAFVR.
Hampden I - P4358 - 61 Sqn.

COCKBURN, Andrew McNab - Sgt - 638760 - RAF.
TAGG, Maurice Roy - P/O - 42541 - RAF.
WALTHO, Frederick Stanley - Sgt - 633350 - RAF.
These three airmen were crew of Hampden I - P4343 - 61 Sqn.

The four airmen named above are all at rest at Sage War Cemetery, Niedersachsen, Germany.

UK
FURSE, Charles William - F/O - 70233 - RAF (RAFO).
Nottingham Southern Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.
LODGE, Stanley Perry ( Cornwall) - P/O - 77308 - RAFVR.
St. Austell Cemetery, Cornwall.
These two airmen were crew of Magister I - L8287 - 13 MU.

BULMER, Geoffrey Gordon Robson - S/Lt(A) - HMS Daedalus - RN.
Lee-On-Solent Memorial, Hampshire.
Hurricane I - N2670 - 32 Sqn RAF.

The twelve airmen named below are all commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey.

CORCORAN, Henry - Sgt - 519958 - RAF.
LOCKTON, Eric Edward - Sgt - 740005 - RAFVR.
These two airmen were crew of Blenheim I - L1300 - 236 Sqn.

STEPHENS, John Frank - Sqn/Ldr - 32024 - RAF.
WEST, James Victor - Sgt - 533941 - RAF - DFM.
These two airmen were crew of Blenheim IV - R3738 - 110 Sqn.

HAWORTH, Joseph Frederick John - F/O - 39734 - RAF.
Hurricane I - P3964 - 43 Sqn.

SYLVESTER, Edmund John Hilary - P/O - 90556 - RAF (AAF).
Hurricane I - P3082 - 501 Sqn.

POSENER, Frederick Hyam - P/O - 41735 - RAF.
Spitfire Ia - K9880 - 152 Sqn.

COWELL, Walter Robert - Sgt - 628277 - RAF.
GOTT, Merle - Sgt - 522865 - RAF.
MIDDLETON, Douglas Davidson - F/Lt - 39105 - RAF.
MONYPENNY, John Blackwell Sinclair - Sqn/Ldr - 29098 - RAF.
WATSON, Fred - Sgt - 580743 - RAF.
These five airmen were crew of Wellington I - L7795 - 9 Sqn.

Alex

[Andy Marden]

Alex,



EGYPT
POWNING, Richard John Redfern - P/O - 42321 - RAF.
Alexandria ( Chatby ) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.
Wellesley - K7789 - 113 Sqn.


This one has me scratching my head.
Our database entry: http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=K7789
records the unit of K7789 as PRRP/TURP. This comes from the Air-Britain serials book, but is surely referring to two consecutive units, ie Pilots Reserve & Reinforcement Pool, followed by Training Unit and Reserve Pool
The TNA file: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16471667
refers to 102 MU, which was indeed in Egypt at the time
CWGC go for 113 Sqn:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2112808/powning,-richard-john-redfern/
which was a Blenheim unit. Was Powning detached from that squadron? I can't find anything in the (meagre) ORB for that squadron at the time.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

UK
BENNETT, Robert William - AC2c - 926312 - the Lincolnshire Echo of July 22nd 1940 reported the following:

AIRMAN FATALLY INJURED
An inquest will be held at Lincoln County Hospital to-night on A/C.2 Robert William Bennett, R.A.F., who died in the hospital yesterday morning, after being involved in an accident on the Lincoln-Dunholme road on Saturday night.

The inquest was reported the next day, and the article recorded that Bennett was struck by a car as he and a Pte. Edwin Atkinson were walking from Nettleham to Dunholme on the Lincoln-Market Rasen road late on the Saturday night. The driver of the car, also named Bennett, saw the two men walking on the road as it curved in a gentle S bend, tried to swerve to avoid them but struck AC2 Bennett. He suffered a fractured thigh and a fracture of the base of the skull, from which he died 20 minutes after admission to hospital. A verdict of "Accidental death" was returned.

Regards

Simon

[Alex Smart]

He'll Andy,
K File has -
AD Aboukir 28.4.39 for 45 Sqn; PRRP Ismailia. Wing hit ground in formation turn, Amriya, 20.7.40; pilot killed.
So PRRP = Pilots Reserve & Reinforcement Pool(Middle East). Which may well mean that Powning may well have earlier been with 113 Sqn and was attached to the MU at the time of the accident?
Alex