441025 - Unaccounted Airmen - 25-10-1944

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

441025 - Unaccounted Airmen - 25-10-1944

From Henk's List -

UK
CROTHERS, Basil - F/S(Pilot) - 1623176 - RAFVR - Bath (Haycombe ) Cemetery, Somerset.
GUY, Leslie - F/S(Pilot) - 1522069 - RAFVR - Stockton-On-Tees (Oxbridge Lane ) Cemetery, Durham.
SARGINSON, Ronald - LAC - 1477695 - RAFVR - Kendal (Parkside) Cemetery, Westmorland.
HENFREY, Wilson - Sgt - 350915 - RAF - Deeping St. James Cemetery, Lincolnshire. [ see 26th October 1944 ].

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

BELGIUM
HARRIS, Sydney Horatio - Sgt - 935085 - RAFVR - Schoonselhof Cemetery, Antwerpen, Belgium.
WICKENS, Gerald Arthur Bishop - AC1c - 578579 - RAF - Schoonselhof Cemetery, Antwerpen, Belgium.

UK
NEWTON, Thomas Christopher - F/S (Pilot) - 1466743 - RAFVR - South Shoebury (St. Andrew) Churchyard, Essex. [ Albermarle II - 22 HGCU ].
WILSON, John Albert Cotton - Sgt (WoP-A/G) - 1582594 - RAFVR - Oswestry General Cemetery, Shropshire. [ Albermarle II - 22 HGCU ].

Alex

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

BELGIUM
HARRIS, Sydney Horatio - Sgt - serving with No 146 Wing and was probably killed when a V2 landed on the airfield at Deurne near Antwerp.
WICKENS, Gerald Arthur Bishop - AC1 - serving with No 6197 SE and was probably killed when a V2 landed on the airfield at Deurne near Antwerp.
Also Brierley, Cordon and Ball as possibles

UK
CROTHERS, Basil - F/S(Pilot) - registered in Stroud.
GUY, Leslie - F/S(Pilot) - registered in Stroud.
SARGINSON, Ronald - LAC - registered in Westmorland.
HENFREY, Wilson - Sgt - registered in Bourne
NEWTON, Thomas Christopher - F/S (Pilot) - Albermarle II - 22 HGCU ].
WILSON, John Albert Cotton - Sgt (WoP-A/G) - Albermarle II - 22 HGCU ].

Malcolm

[John Larder]

Albemarle V1755 22 HGCU

[wwrsimon]

Hello

CROTHERS, Basil - F/S(Pilot) - 1623176
GUY, Leslie - F/S(Pilot) - 1522069 - the G.R.R. Forms on their respective CWGC entries have their unit as 15 (P) A.F.U. - possibly Oxford BG260?

SARGINSON, Ronald - LAC - 1477695 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at The Sanatorium, Meathop, Westmoreland.

Regards

Simon

[malcolm_raf]

I can confirm BG260

Malcolm

[wwrsimon]

Thanks Malcolm.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Gerald Arthur Bishop Wickens 578579 , was seriously wounded in a flying bomb incident at Deurne, and was admitted to Number 9 General hospital half an hour later where he died 5 minutes after admission of gross blast wounds to the face without having regained consciousness

[jonheyworth]

Ronald Sarginson 1477695 | who had been attached to RAF North Creake , was admitted seriously ill to the White Lodge EMS hospital, Newmarket on 23 May, and was discharged from the RAF on 27 August. He died in the Westmoreland sanatorium Meathorp, Grange over Sands, of pulmonary tuberculosis