440409 - Unaccounted Airmen - 9-4-1944

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

440409 - Unaccounted Airmen - 9-4-1944

From Henk's list -

EGYPT
SHEPHERD, Roland Cadwell - Cpl - 646154 - RAF - Heliopolis, Egypt.

UK
COOMBES, George Thomas - Cpl - 1511399 - RAFVR - Hull Eastern, Yorkshire.
HUTCHINSON, Marcus Mowbray - A F C - Wng/Cdr (Pilot) - 90058 - RAF - Rolleston (St. Mary), Staffordshire.
JONES, James Walter - LAC - 618625 - RAF - Ffairfach (Tabernacle), Congregational, Carmarthenshire.
KILLNER, Bernard - AC2c - 1038156 - RAFVR - Liverpool (West Derby), Lancashire.
SMITH, Douglas Allan - Sgt (Pilot) - 1802113 - RAF - Coleshill (All Saints), Amersham, Buckinghamshire.
WILSON, Herbert Charles - Cpl - 1205705 - RAFVR - Romford, Essex.

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

As Henk's above.

Alex

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

EGYPT
SHEPHERD, Roland Cadwell - Cpl - serving with 1332 MU.

UK
COOMBES, George Thomas - Cpl - not Eng/Wales?.
HUTCHINSON, Marcus Mowbray - A F C - Wng/Cdr (Pilot) - registered in Cheltenham.
JONES, James Walter - LAC - registered in Brecknock.
KILLNER, Bernard - AC2 - not Eng/Wales?.
SMITH, Douglas Allan - Sgt (Pilot) - possibly killed whilst flying in either Oxford I, N6338 or NM415 of No 21 (P) AFU, which collided with each other near Tatenhill.
WILSON, Herbert Charles - Cpl - registered in Newark

Malcolm

[noggin1969]

WILSON, HERBERT CHARLES
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 1205705
Date of Death: 09/04/1944
Age: 36
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Grave Reference: Sec. LL. Grave 2489.
Cemetery: ROMFORD CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Arthur Alexander and Alice Maud Wilson, of Canvey Island; husband of Ena Edith May Wilson, of Pakenham, Suffolk. Died at Newark Hospital from a subarachnoid haemorrhage caused by a burst aneurysm while serving at RAF Syerston.

[jonheyworth]

John Henry Cronk 1280178 , committed suicide in his tent at RAF Hurn

[jonheyworth]

Ronald Caldwell Shepherd 646154 , attached to 132 MU , was admitted seriously ill to Number 5 South African General hospital on 7 April , where he died at 01:00 Hours of diphtheria

[jonheyworth]

Bernard Killner 1038156 , a Fitter 2 E attached to HQ Number 15 Group, was killed in a flying accident at 19:44 Hours whilst flying as a passenger in Tiger Moth II T5078, which crashed at Houghton Tower Farm near Hale, Lancashire, when the engine cut during aerobatics and the aircraft stalled into the ground during a forced landing. His body being removed to Broadgreen EMS hospital, Liverpool

[jonheyworth]

James Walter Jones 618625 ,attached to 78 MU, was admitted seriously ill to the Brecon military hospital on 5 April, dying at 03:05 Hours of amoebic hepatitis

The current entry in this database is wholly erroneous

[jonheyworth]

George Thomas Coombes 1511399 | attached to RAF Exeter | was killed at 22:45 Hours 200 yards on the Exeter side of Halfway House, Alysbeare, Devon, on the Exeter to Sidmouth Road, when he was struck by a US Army jeep whilst off duty