450801 - Unaccounted Airmen - 01-08-1945

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

450801 - Unaccounted Airmen - 01-08-1945

From Henk's List -

EGYPT
WARD, Oliver Barker - Cpl - 1400230 - RAFVR - Heliopolis War Cemetery, Egypt.

UK
FERGUSON, Frank - LAC - 1096756 - RAFVR - Cleator Moor (St. John ) Churchyard, Cumberland.

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

UK
ADAMS, George Henry Fearnley - Cpl - 957003 - RAFVR - bath (Haycombe ) Cemetery, Somerset.( Oxford I - LX140 - 3 PAFU ).

Alex

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

UK - 957003 Cpl George Henry Fearnley ADAMS.

1-8-1945
No.3 PAFU
Oxford I LX140

Aircraft was being ferried from parent unit for major repairs, and crashed at 1200 hrs at Braydon Road, Wiltshire - destroyed by fire.

The Oxford circled Braydon Road, then went round again and struck a telegraph pole crashing into a farmhouse. The pilot was engaging in unauthorised low flying.

AUS4091* F/O (Pilot) George RETALLACK RAAF +
957003 Cpl (Pass.) George Henry Fearnley ADAMS RAFVR +

Both buried, Bath (Haycombe) Cemetery, Somerset.

* Retallack's service number is quoted elsewhere, as 1605. I believe 4091 is correct (4091, was the number he was allotted on enlistment).

Photo of Retallack RAAF, here: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/UK0599/ - W/O "MONTY" KEMP MBE., believed to be: 16564 W/O Montague KEMP MBE(M) RAF.

Col.

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

EGYPT
WARD, Oliver Barker - Cpl - 216 Group.

UK
FERGUSON, Frank - LAC - registered in Newton.

Malcolm

[jonheyworth]

David Anthony Cohen 185969 , was killed in a flying accident when Spitfire MT 710 crashed on the bombing range at RAF Amarda Road at 03:10 hours

[jonheyworth]

Oliver Barker Ward 1400230 , attached to 216 Group , died of pancreatitis

[jonheyworth]

Reginald Hubert Salisbury 1331941 , was seriously injured in an off duty bathing accident at Frederichsort Strandem Kiel, when he hit his head on a submerged object. He was admitted the the ship's hospital on the " Monta Rosa " but died shortly after

[jonheyworth]

Frank Ferguson 1096756 | attached to Number 1 PHU | was admitted seriously ill to Number 35 British General hospital in the Middle East on 16 November 1944 and transferred to Number 13 General hospital on 19 February 1945. Evacuated to the U.K. by sea on 22 April, he was admitted to Southmead hospital Bristol and thence to Winwick EMS hospital where he died of haematomyelia with his father, Mr. J. Ferguson of Whinney Hill, Cleator Noor, Whitehaven, at his bedside