430501 - Unaccounted airwoman and airman - 1-5-1943

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration for:

A - Killed on active service:
F/Sgt (Nav) Jack BAKER - 1354329 (have a note that he died of gunshot wound whilst on "ops" flight, what may have been KIA instead of KOAS - aircraft may have returned safely to base).

B - Not found in Flight Global:
ACW2 Grace M. YOUNG - 2014942.

C - Proposed aircraft losses:
Master III - W8560 - 5 (P)AFU - crashed in forced landing Showell Grange, adjacent to Chetwynd.
Oxford II - V3562 - 15 (P)AFU - crashed on landing Ramsbury.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[Theletterwriter]

Henk

F/Sgt (Nav) Jack BAKER - 1354329 : death registered at Tealing, County of Angus, Scotland. The record confirms "Due to war operation : gunshot wound of head while on operational flight". No squadron is given but information was supplied by G.C. Pinkerton Commanding Officer.

Douglas

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Grace M Young,20, registered at Basingstoke, Hampshire
Regards
Dick

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Dick for info on YOUNG.
Postman just brought in ISBN 0-85979-101-7 (Graham Warner's "The Bristol Blenheim - A complete history" - 2nd Edition).
Regards,
Henk.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

F/Sgt (Nav) Jack BAKER - 1354329 - the Graves Registration Report Form lists his unit as 56 O.T.U., which was a Hurricane O.T.U. at Tealing at that time.

However, this page has him killed in Beaufighter JL945 HO-W of 143 Sqn:

http://aircrewremembered.com/bain-victor-albert.html

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

UPGRADE to Gerald Holden Irvine R197759, a ground wireless operator attached to 3RD Vancouver, died in the Shaughenessy hospital, Vancouver, of pulmonary tuberculosis

[jonheyworth]

Peter Scott 118508 , attached to Number 33 ANS, died of generalised toxameia