450129 - Unaccounted Airmen - 29-01-1945

**jonheyworth** · 5th July 2021, 18:07

Malcolm Jones Howard 183223 , attached to Number 10 AGS, died at 12 The Crescent, Merthyr Vale , of a perforated gastric ulcer

**jonheyworth** · 15th October 2021, 19:33

Herbert Henry Faulks 1231719 , attached to 48 MU, was killed in a road accident when he was thrown from a 30 CWT Ford Lorry which hit a telegraph pole 400 yards north of Two Mills crossroads on the Sealand to Birkenhead road. The other occupant of the lorry was injured .

**jonheyworth** · 22nd February 2022, 23:08

Muhammad Hanif 51217 , attached to Number 139 RSU , was found dead in an agricultural well at the 139 RSU Camp

**jonheyworth** · 2nd December 2022, 15:10

Earl Lambert Holmes 630013 , attached to Number 13 MSU, was injured in an off duty road accident on 28 January and was admitted to the RN Auxiliary hospital at Columbo, where he died of his injuries

Earl Holmes is the last RAF Airman resting in Sri Lanka to be fully accounted for

**jonheyworth** · 21st February 2023, 19:39

Ernest George Richings 226993 | attached to Number 7 FIS | was admitted seriously ill to RAF station hospital, Yatesbury on 30 October 1944, where he died of myocarditis

**jonheyworth** · 8th March 2023, 17:45

Percy Lancaster 1660455 | attached to Number 1 PHU | was admitted to RAF hospital Wilmslow on 1 January, dying at 02:00 Hours of carcinoma of the head of the pancreas

**jonheyworth** · 6th June 2023, 15:03

Donald Neil Turner 1485000 | attached to RAF Weeton | was admitted seriously ill to RAF Hospital Weeton on 22 January, where he died of acute appendicitis

**jonny** · 3rd September 2023, 09:24

I was just reading the 84 Group Comms Sqn ORB for 29 Jan 1945. It states that Warrant Officer Lock (pilot) and Flight Sergeant Tilston (Nav), along with five of their six passengers, were all killed when their Anson a/c (no serial given) crashed on landing at Northolt. Other than a 'Flt Sgt Miller' who was seriously injured, the other five fatal casualties are not listed by name.
W.O. George William Lock's commission was underway at the time of his death, which is why he is listed as a Plt Off (with s/n 190910) by the CWGC. I am almost sure that this is the same George William Lock who undertook a full tour as a Boston pilot with 88 Sqn in 1943 / 44.

**Andy Marden** · 3rd September 2023, 12:19

I have tidied the entry for Anson NL128:
https://www.rafcommands.com/database...php?uniq=NL128
Looks like we are still missing some of the casualties.