430506 - Unaccounted airmen - 6-5-1943

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration for:

Cpl William W. McCLYMONT - 1019840 - age 31;
AC1 Leonard E. NORRIS - 1405208, and
Cpl William J.D. POWELL - 1226415,
who all died on active service.

Regards and thanks,
Henk.

[malcolm_raf]

Hi Henk

McClymont - not Eng/Wales
Norris - Truro, Cornwall
Powell - Upton, Worcestershire

Malcolm

[Theletterwriter]

Henk

Cpl William Wallace McCLYMONT - 1019840 - age 31 : death registered in East Kilbride, County of Lanark, Scotland.

Douglas

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Douglas & Malcolm.
Regards,
Henk.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

Cpl William W. McCLYMONT - 1019840 - the Statutory Deaths Register on the Scotland's People website records that he died at 7.10 p.m. at Hairmyres Hospital, due to carcinoma of the breast, spread to the liver and lungs.

AC1 Leonard E. NORRIS - 1405208 - the National Probate Calendar records that the died at the Royal Infirmary, Truro.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Richard George Earl 967463, became seriously ill on 26th March and was admitted to Number 6 East Africa hospital where he died of malaria and dystentry

[jonheyworth]

Walter Herbert James 1223731, died in an Airscrew accident

[jonheyworth]

Leslie George Young 1443453 , attached to AHQ India on attachment to Special Operations, was reported missing on an operation in Burma, when last seen he had been wounded in an arm.
Others in the party were captured and a returning POW questionnaire of 21 December 1946, stated that he had died at Mingyang Chung. His body had been seen in a stream having been wounded seriously in the arm and shoulder and when being marched, he collapsed ten miles East of the Chidwin River. All the party were exhausted at the time. Another questionnaire revealed that a second party had passed through the location a few days later and had found his body, mutilated, but identifiable. No burial details were known. He was classed as having died of wounds on 6 May 1943

[jonheyworth]

Leonard Edward Norris 1405208 , attached to RAF Portreath , died in the Royal Cornwall infirmary, Truro, of jaundice

[jonheyworth]

John Dunn Powell 1126415 | attached to Number 4 MT Company | was killed in a Road accident at Newland, Worcestershire, whilst riding RAF Motorcycle Number 21124. His body was removed to Great Malvern mortuary