430509 - Unaccounted airmen - 9-5-1943

[Henk Welting]

What was the place of death death registration for Sgt (WOp/Ag) Herbert E. BOYD - 1365603, who died on active service.

Also looking for the GRO-listing of LAC Evan G. WILLIAMS (Casualty Communiqué 253, Flight 15-7-1943 spelled as WILLIAM) - 1339044 - age 24 - DOAS - buried La Réunion War Cem., Bejaia, Algeria.

Regards and thanks,
Henk.

[malcolm_raf]

Hi Henk

Boyd - Wenlock (RAF Hospital, Cosford?)
Williams - 226 AMES

Malcolm

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Malcolm.
Regards and good Sunday,
Henk.

[Henk Welting]

Sgt (WOp/Ag) Kenneth H. BATEMAN - 1128675 of 75 PTU (Parachute Test Unit ??) was killed on active service 9-5-1943 and lies buried in the Alexandria (Hadra) War Mem. Cem., Egypt. Can't find a posting for this unit and type of aircraft assigned to this unit.
Looking for info what caused this airman's death.
Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[COL BRUGGY]

Henk,

Don't like 75 PTU at all!

Possibly 75 OTU. Maybe; Anson I DJ284 failed to return from exercise 8/9-5-1943.

What do you think?

Col.

[Henk Welting]

Sgt (WOp/Ag) Kenneth H. BATEMAN - 1128675 hailed from the Irish Republic and perhaps Dennis could be of any help.

Henk.

[Henk Welting]

Col,
You could be right with 75 OTU and the Anson missing from a Navex. On the Alamein Memorial are with date 9-5-1943 and both of 75 OTU:
Sgt John BILTON - 1382087 - Column 270, and
Sgt Clifford H. RAWLINS - 1319323 - Column 271.
BATEMAN could have been recovered from the sea.
Henk.

[malcolm_raf]

Sgt BARRY, BERNARD KEVIN 1335274 of 75 OTU was also lost on this date

Malcolm

[COL BRUGGY]

Gents,

Already had those names marked up., plus one other:

90453 W/C Archibald Henry Everett DEW RAF(AuxAF).

Although DEW is not mentioned in the same casualty lists as Barry,Bateman,Bilton and Rawlins, (The Times July 6, 1943 p.2), there is this:

DEATHS - ON ACTIVE SERVICE.

DEW.- In May 1943 reported died at sea. Wing Commander Archibald Henry Everett Dew R.A.F.V.R., beloved husband of Doris Dew, of "Wimpole" Jennings Road, St. Albans. Memorial Service, St. Michael's, Cornhill, July 13 at 12.30 p.m.

The Times Thursday, July 1, 1943. p.1




Col.

[dennis_burke]

Dew is listed in the GRO lists as with 'AMU', just those letters.

[malcolm_raf]

AMU = Air Ministry Unit, so he was probably a staff officer

Malcolm

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

Chris Hobson, in his Failed To Return, Part 2, A-B, (p.458), has this to say about Bateman:

Bateman, Sergeant Kenneth Harrison, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, (1128675), Wireless Operator/Air Gunner, 75 Operational Training Unit, Gianaclis, Egypt, North Africa, 09 May 1943, Killed Whilst Flying, Anson I, DJ284, Lost during a navigational exercise, Age 27, Carrigaline, Cork, Republic of Ireland, Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.

Col.

[dennis_burke]

A GRO overseas death cert on an ancestry.com family tree for A H E Dew indicates he died on the SS Highland brigade.

Cause of death is cropped but starts with: Coronary.....



H E Boyd is listed as Died on Active Service and has OADU listed on his graves registration form scanned on CWGC

[jonheyworth]

John Gerard Olin 1044780 , attached to RAF Kano, was killed in a vehicle accident

[jonheyworth]

Evan Gwyn Williams 1339044 attached to 226 AMES , accidently drowned whilst swimming at Djidelli

[jonheyworth]

Norman John Case 553927 , attached to Number 58 RSU , was admitted dangerously ill to Number 6 General hospital, confused and covered in lice bites. Typhoid fever was diagnosed and he died of generalised congestion of the organs 8 days after admission

[jonheyworth]

Herbert Ewart Boyd 1365603 , attached to RAF Portreath, was admitted dangerously ill to RAF hospital, Cosford on 20 February where he died of double empyema with his wife, Mrs. M A Boyd of Gordon Road, London E4 , at his bedside