430702 - Unaccounted airmen - 2-7-1943

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration for:

A - Died on active service:
AC1 Clifford E. BOZWORTH - 1319795 - age 22, aqnd
LAC William G. GIBSON - 1054250.

B - Not found in Flight Global:
LAC James A. MACDONALD - 948318 - 620 Sqn (Chedburgh, Suffolk).

C - Died of wounds or injuries received on active service:
Sgt (WOp) William S.H. MENZIES - 919401.

D - Proposed aircraft losses:
Magister I - L5947 - 44 Sqn - flew into ground Bracebridge Heath, Lincolnshire (or was the accident date 2-7-19"40"; see my thread "400702 - Unaccounted airman - 2-7-1940").
Beaufort II - AW382 - 5 (C)OTU - overshot landing at night Long Kesh.
Oxford I - MP281 - 6 (P)AFU - flew into ground Moreton-in-Marsh (already as a casualty on this a/c: Sgt [Pilot] K.B. ANSTALL - 1509442).

E - It is known that this day a 1,000 lb bomb exploded on a trolly at Lissett, Yorkshire, and have names of following casualties on file, all assigned to 158 Sqn:
Cpl Leslie T. FIELDING - 1079323 (commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial);
AC1 Jack E. LAUCOCK - 1696963 (commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial);
AC2 Robert G. MILLS - 1030747;
AC1 William MITHAN - 1085812;
AC1 Lewis D. MOORE - 1665709 - age 33, and
AC1 Kenneth D. TAYLOR - 1131423.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Bozworth,22, registered at Chippenham, Wiltshire
Gibson, 21, registered at Barrow, Lancashire
MacDonald,31, registered at Newmarket, Suffolk
Menzies,25, registered at Sleaford, Lincolnshire
All of those in your Lissett incident were registered at Buckrose, E Yorkshire. Laucock is spelled Laycock on the register and Moore's age is given as 35
Regards
Dick

[dfuller52]

Wow, I just had a look at this one and couldn't get the picture out of my mind of erks meeting their end this way. Horrible. And it looks like two of them were so badly damaged there wasn't enough to bury hence their being listed on the Runnymede Memorial. Am I surmising correctly?

[malcolm_raf]

Hi Henk

According to Chorley Macdonald was on Stirling III, BK724 QS-Y which collided with EF394 during a fighter affiliation exercise.

Malcolm

[Henk Welting]

Thanks friends for your much appreciated help.

Henk.

[dennis_burke]

kenneth Boardman ASTALL is registered in North Cotswold distirct, just for the record.

[jonheyworth]

UPGRADE to Henry Boice Whitman R 215252, he died in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Quebec, of an acute intestinal obstruction

[jonheyworth]

Joan Constance Breedon 2063174 attached to 39 MU

[jonheyworth]

Clifford Edwin Bozworth 1319795 , attached to Number 7 FIS , was admitted seriously ill to RAF hospital Wroughton on 28 June where he died of tuberculosis meningitis

[jonheyworth]

Taliesin Llewellyn Harris 630445 , was admitted to the BMH Chyklata on 28 June where he died of a pelvic abscess and collapsed left lung

[jonheyworth]

William George Gibson 1054250 , attached to 1656 HCU , was admitted dangerously ill to the Military Wing of Doncaster Royal Infirmary on 21 June where he died of sub acute nephritis

[malcolm_raf]

Hi Jon

"William George Gibson 1054250 , attached to 1656 HCU , was admitted dangerously ill to the Military Wing of Doncaster Royal Infirmary on 21 June where he died from sub acute nephritis"

His death is registered in Barrow in Furness?

Malcolm

[jonheyworth]

Hi Jon

"William George Gibson 1054250 , attached to 1656 HCU , was admitted dangerously ill to the Military Wing of Doncaster Royal Infirmary on 21 June where he died from sub acute nephritis"

His death is registered in Barrow in Furness?

Malcolm


I’ll double check mate . Thanks again

[jonheyworth]

Lazim Ali 7816 , attached to RAF Bahrein , died of heat hyperexia