440711 - Unaccounted Airmen - 11-7-1944

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

440711 - Unaccounted Airmen - 11-7-1944

From Henk's List -

ITALY
HOSKING, William James - AC1c - 1158887 - RAFVR - Bari, Italy.
RANSOM, Charles Trevor - Cpl - 1194662 - RAFVR - Bolsena, Italy.

UK
STEWART, William Harvey - Sgt - 329822 - RAF - St. Andrews Western, Fifeshire.
SWAIN, William Richard - LAC - 1421534 - RAFVR - Burton (St. Mary in Rhos), Pembrokeshire.

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

UK
BARKER, Bernard Andrew - Sgt (Flt/Engr) - 1392337 - RAFVR - Fulford Cemetery, Yorkshire. [ Halifax II - HX147 - 1666 HCU ].
EDGECOMBE, Pelham William Lawrence - F/L - 64813 - RAFVR - Erdington (SS. Thomas & Edmund of Canterbury), R C , Warwickshire.
WALTER, Ronald Neville Henry - P/O (Pilot) - 178076 - RAFVR - Stratford-On-Avon, Warwickshire.

Alex

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

ITALY
HOSKING, William James - AC1 - 8016 AMES.
RANSOM, Charles Trevor - Cpl - 887 AMES.

UK
STEWART, William Harvey - Sgt - not Eng/Wales?.
SWAIN, William Richard - LAC - registered in Pembroke.
BARKER, Bernard Andrew - Sgt (Flt/Engr) - Halifax II - HX147 - 1666 HCU ].
EDGECOMBE, Pelham William Lawrence - F/L - registered in Birmingham.
WALTER, Ronald Neville Henry - P/O (Pilot) - killed whilst flying in Hurricane IIC, MW346 of No 10 OTU, which dived into the ground during a fighter affiliation exercise with a Whitley.

Malcolm

[Matt_Edgecombe]

My Grandfather :-
EDGECOMBE, Pelham William Lawrence - F/L - 64813 - RAFVR - Erdington (SS. Thomas & Edmund of Canterbury), R C , Warwickshire.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

UK
STEWART, William Harvey - Sgt - 329822 - an announcement in the St. Andrews Citizen of July 15th 1944 records that he died at Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow.

SWAIN, William Richard - LAC - 1421534 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at Woodbine Hospital, Pembroke.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

UPGRADE to Alexander Smith R 144471 , a postal clerk, he died in RAF Hospital, Naples, of acute poliomyelitis

[jonheyworth]

UPGRADE to Stewart William Harvey 329822 , attached to 239 MU, he died in Ruchill hospital, Glasgow, of meningitis septacemia

[jonheyworth]

William Richard Swain 1421534 , attached to RAF Pembroke Dock, fell onto a manhole cover at Woodbine House and suffered a ruptured urethra through a wire in the pelvic cavity on 4th July. Admitted to the EMS hospital, Pembroke Dock where he died.

[jonheyworth]

Charles Trevor Ransom 1194662 , attached to 887 AMES, died of injuries sustained in a road accident at Orvieto

[jonheyworth]

Pelham William Lawrence Edgecombe 64813 | was admitted seriously ill to the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham on 28 January, but was discharged on 13 February . becoming dangerously ill on 22 March, and readmitted, from sick leave, he died of a tumour of the chest with his wife, Mrs. U.L. Edgecombe of Silver Birch Road, Erdibgton, Birmingham at his bedside