400917 - Unaccounted airman - 17-9-1940

[jonheyworth]

Batts 919774 , was added to the database on 23 March

[paulmcmillan]

AC2 Edwin Sidney Harold UNDERWOOD 1155519 961 (Ballon) Sqn Inj/+ 17-Sep-40

According to inquest reported in Dover Express - Friday 20 September 1940 he was accidently shot on 8th Sept and died 17th - which is 9 days later - not 3 or 8 as reported elsewhere

He was initially shot in buttock by LAC Ernest Turner

Flight Lieutenant F S Rae (Medical Branch) said that deceased had a gunshot
wound in the buttock He got on well for two or three days, but then the wound turned
septic, and he died in a hospital on September 17th. Deceased attached no blame to
Turner.