440809 - Unaccounted Airmen - 9-8-1944

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

440809 - Unaccounted Airmen - 9-8-1944

From Henk's List -

FRANCE
STEPHENSON, Albert Arthur - Cpl - 1491881 - RAFVR - La Delivrande War Cemetery, Douvres, Calvados, France.

UK
ADAMS, Reginald George - Cpl - 1353569 - RAFVR - City of London Cemetery & Crematorium, Manor Park, Essex.
LASSMAN, Leonard AC1c - 1263603 - RAF - East Ham (Marlow Road) Jewish Cemetery, Essex.
MITCHELL, William Irvine George - LAC - 1337491 - RAFVR - Brixham (St. Mary) Churchyard, Devon.
PORTEOUS, James Cowan - AC1c - 1077288 - RAFVR - Gladsmuir Parish Churchyard, East Lothian.
WHITE, Arthur Joseph Heathcote - Sgt - 1094493 - MiD - RAFVR - York Cemetery, Yorkshire.
WILSON, Frank Joseph - F/L (Pilot) - 66034 - RAFVR - Liverpool (Anfield) Cemetery, Lancashire.
WOOLGAR, Leonard Frederick - W/O (Pilot) - 1331623 - RAFVR - Croydon (Mitcham Road) Cemetery, Surrey.

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

UK
CAMPS, Hubert John - F/L (Nav) - 102295 - RAFVR - Cambridge City Cemetery, Cambridgeshire.
THOMAS, Thomas Glanville - F/O (A/G) - 157983 - RAFVR - Southampton Crematorium, Hampshire.

Alex

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

UK - MITCHELL.

9-8-1944
No.51 OTU, Twinwoods Farm.
Martinet X NR502

Aircraft crashed 1130, while drogue towing, at Cottage Farm, Little Blakenham, nr Ipswich, Suffolk. Pilot was attempting a forced-landing due to engine failure and struck some high-tension cables on his approach to field. The aircraft crashed and burnt out.

AUS40110 F/Sgt (Pilot) Maxwell Alan MAINE RAAF - Seriously injured
1337491 LAC (Drogue/Op.) William Irvine George MITCHELL RAFVR +

Col.

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

FRANCE
STEPHENSON, Albert Arthur - Cpl - not listed in GRO Lists

UK
ADAMS, Reginald George - Cpl - registered in Southport.
LASSMAN, Leonard AC1 - registered in Hendon
PORTEOUS, James Cowan - AC1 - not Eng/Wales?.
WHITE, Arthur Joseph Heathcote - Sgt - registered in Louth.
WILSON, Frank Joseph - F/L (Pilot) - registered in Oxford.
WOOLGAR, Leonard Frederick - W/O (Pilot) - possibly killed whilst flying in Oxford I, HN787 of RAF North Weald, which crashed after swinging on take off.
CAMPS, Hubert John - F/L (Nav) - killed whilst flying in Mosquito XX, KB209 of the A & AEE High Altitude Flight, which dived inverted into the ground during a test flight.
THOMAS, Thomas Glanville - F/O (A/G) - see Camps

Malcolm

[wwrsimon]

Hello

PORTEOUS, James Cowan - AC1c - 1077288 - the Statutory Deaths Register on the Scotland's People website records that he died at 9.05 a.m. at Hay Avenue, Craigmillar due to pulmonary TB, from which he had been suffering for three years.

Regards

Simon

[Russell]

Hi

I am highly interested in the loss of Sgt I.T Clarke and his pilot Plt Off R A. Clark in Boston W8353. As far as I can trace this is what happened
A routine event happened when a crew from 4 Aircraft Dispatch Unit took off in a 114 Sqn Boston to ferry it to No.51 R&SU to be repaired but it crashed. The initial casualty report on the pilot -who was Australian and thus the report is in the Australian National Archives - stated the reasons for the crash were unknown and that it was an accident. This classification was later changed to the cause of the crash being categorized as “Flying Battle”, which generally means the aircraft was on an operational sortie, which it was not, or it was caused by enemy action. David Gundby and Pelham Temple’s book “Bomber Losses in the Middle East and Mediterranean Vol 2” states the cause was an encounter with enemy aircraft. If so the only likely candidates were NAGr 11 on a Tactical Recce mission. The German Command SW Daily report only mention a freelance fighter sweep and two a/c shot down by Flak.

Has anything surfaced in the last six years on what happened???? Hopefully we can then have the most current info in Mediterranean Air War Vol 5, which is nearing completion, but interesting questions like this keep popping up.

Regards

Russell

[jonheyworth]

Leonard Lassman 1263603 died at 40 Parade Mansions , Hendon of nephritis and a cereberal heamorhage

[jonheyworth]

Geoffrey Thomas Ellis 3021508 , went bathing in the river Stort at Eastwick with friends but when they left at 21:00 hours he elected to stay alone and was last seen walking in the river. He did not return and when a search was made for him in the morning, he was found drowned near where he was last seen

[jonheyworth]

Albert Arthur Stephenson 1491881 , an armourer attached to 131 Wing, he was killed at B10 ALG Plumetot from gunshot wounds sustained when a Browning machine gun discharged during cleaning

[jonheyworth]

Arthur Joseph Heathcote White 1094493 , attached to RAF Ludford Manga, died in Louth County Infirmary of carcinoma of the stomach.

The current entry in this database is wholly erroneous

[jonheyworth]

Reginald George Adams 1353569 | attached to RAF Southport | was admitted seriously ill to Southport EMS hospital on 7 August, where he died of pneumonia