401030 - Unaccounted airmen - 30-10-1940

[Henk Welting]

What caused the death of and/or what were the places of death registration for:

Sgt George T. BIRKHEAD - 538032 - not found Flight archives;
F/Sgt William FISCHER - 508027 - killed on active service, and
Sgt Robert M. KILEY - 904568 - killed on active service.

Proposed aircraft losses for this day:

Battle Trainer - R7411 - 307 Sqn - abandoned 5 miles E of Goole, Yorkshire.
Magister I - N5398 - 24 EFTS - crashed on overshoot 1 mile N of Luton.
Master I - N7442 - 5 FTS - flew into high ground Minera, 4½ mile W of Wrexham.
Oxford I - L4624 - 3 FTS - flew into ground Highworth, Wiltshire.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[thorne83]

Birkhead - death registered in Gipping [Suffolk]
Fisher (note spelling - CWGC and death registration) - Registered at Gipping
Can't find Kiley - so maybe death registered outside England and Wales (or possibly spelt slightly differently on death register)

Doesnt look like Gipping ties in with any of the crashes so maybe some kind of ground accident.

Tom

[Ken MacLean]

Henk,

Sgt. G.T. Birkhead is KOAS, Times list 29 Nov 1940.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
There is a Robert M Kylie,25, registered at Luton. If the changed spelling is the right man it could put him on Magister N5398.
Regards
Dick

[Henk Welting]

Thanks gents for all this excellent info.
Regards,
Henk.

[Rich Allenby]

re Battle R7411, 307 Sqdn, I have this recorded as the Polish crew baling out ok, names unknown and crash site as being near Yokefleet.

Again, does not answer Henks query but perhaps rules one aircraft out.

regards rich

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Rich for your additional info on my previous threads; much appreciated.
Regards,
Henk.

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

538032 George Thomas BIRKHEAD RAFVR,

BIRKHEAD, Sergeant George Thomas, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (538032), Armourer, Wattisham, Suffolk, Bomber Command, 30 October 1940, Killed in Action (Ground), Brother of R N Birkhead (955477)*. Killed by the explosion of a 'butterfly bomb' anti-personnel weapon dropped during an enemy air raid on Wattisham, Age 25, East Molesly, Surrey, Epsom Cemetery, Surrey

* + 29 April 1941, No.10 OTU, Whitley V P4939 - BCL7/49.

See: Failed To Return, Part 2, A-B/Hobson/N&MP/2019/p.664.

Col.

[jonheyworth]

Harold William Burfield 911600 , attached to Number 3 Signals School , was admitted seriously ill to RAF hospital Yatesbury on 28 October where he died of cerebro spinal fever

[jonheyworth]

Alfred James Santer 1269187 , attached to Number 4 Recruits Centre , was admitted dangerously ill to the station hospital at RAF Bridgnorth on 27 October, where he died at 17:30 Hours of broncho pneumonia following peritonitis from a perforated duodenal ulcer