460319 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 19-03-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

460319 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 19-03-1946

From Henk's List -

AUSTRIA
DAWNAY, Michael - Wng/CDR - 33082 - RAF - Klagenfurt War Cemetery, Austria.

GIBRALTAR
DAVIES, Kenneth James - F/Sgt - 1315356 - RAFVR - Gibraltar Memorial, Gibraltar.

SOUTH AFRICA
COETZEE, P. F - F/Sgt - 116131 - SAAF - Durban (Stellawood ) Cemetery, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa.

UK
DAVIES, Leonard - LAC - 1417039 - RAFVR - Penrhys Cemetery, Glamorganshire.
KIGHTLEY, Herbert - LAC - 1637005 - RAFVR - Luton General Cemetery, Bedfordshire.
LAKE, Herbert John - Wng/CDR - 121818 - RAFVR - Witheridge Congregational Chapelyard, Devon.
SWATTON, Samuel Victor Ernest - Cpl - 905220 - RAFVR - Gloucester Old Cemetery, Gloucestershire.
WARD, Wilfred James - LAC - 1526980 - RAFVR - Hull Western Cemetery, Yorkshire.

From CWGC & Geoff's Sites -

AIRWOMAN
UK
EVERARD-STEENKAMP, Rosamund King ( South African ) - First Officer - A.T.A - Maidenhead Cemetery, Berkshire - [ Spitfire XIV - NH695 - 1 FP ].

INDIA
THANGARAJ MUTHAYAH, Christopher - P/O - 30444 - RIAF - Delhi/Karachi 1939-1945 War Memorials, India - [ Spitfire XIV - NH793 - RIAF ].

UK
GOODCHILD, Thomas William - F/O - 57062 - RAF - 224 Sqdn - Runnymede Memorial, Surrey - [ Oxford II - X7282 - 224 Sqdn ].

Alex

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

AUSTRIA
DAWNAY, Michael - Wg Cdr - He was serving at AHQ Austria and died at La Rochegasse, in Vienna.


GIBRALTAR
DAVIES, Kenneth James - F/Sgt - 71 ASR MCU.

UK
DAVIES, Leonard - LAC - registered in Fakenham (30) or Portsmouth (51).
KIGHTLEY, Herbert - LAC - registered in Luton.
LAKE, Herbert John - Wg Cdr - registered in Bedford.
SWATTON, Samuel Victor Ernest - Cpl - registered in Gloucester Rural.
WARD, Wilfred James - LAC - registered in Hawarden.

Malcolm

[CZ_RAF]

INDIA
THANGARAJ MUTHAYAH, Christopher - P/O - 30444 - RIAF - Delhi/Karachi 1939-1945 War Memorials, India - [ Spitfire XIV - NH793 - RIAF ].

confirmed by this site: http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Database/3044

Pavel

[CZ_RAF]

AIRWOMAN
UK
EVERARD-STEENKAMP, Rosamund King ( South African ) - First Officer - A.T.A - Maidenhead Cemetery, Berkshire - [ Spitfire XIV - NH695 - 1 FP ]

it has been lready discussed in older thread: http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/sho...-Steenkamp-ATA

Pavel

[wwrsimon]

Hi

UK
LAKE, Herbert John - Wng/CDR - 121818 - the Northampton Mercury of March 22nd 1946 reported that he was found shot dead in his office at R.A.F. Podington. A verdict of suicide was recorded, and the inquest was told:
"[he] was inclined to worry about small matters, and had complained about being overworked.
"Very happily married, with three sons, he was due to be demobilised in about two to three months time. He had been at Podington about four months.
"The Coroner, recording his verdict, said...there is no apparent reason why Wing-Commander Lake should have taken such a course."

Regards

Simon

[Martyn A Critchlow]

SWATTON, Samuel Victor Ernest - Cpl - 905220

Died in Over Hospital, Gloucestershire.

Wednesday 20 March 1946, Gloucester Citizen

Martyn

[RecklessRat]

COETZEE, P. F - F/Sgt - 116131

Petrus Francois Coetzee
Died Springfield Military Hospital, Durban, aged 41, of Pulmonary Tuberculosis

From the Death Notice and Certificate of Death on Service on FamilySearch

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61...962&cc=2520237
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61...963&cc=2520237

[jonheyworth]

Kenneth James Davies 1315356 , died on board an HSL of Gibraltar of an internal abdominal haemorrhage, being confirmed at the Gibraltar military hospital

[jonheyworth]

Michael Dawnay 33082 , attached to AHQ Austria died in Larochegasse, Vienna of gun shot wounds

[jonheyworth]

Wilfred James Ward 1526980 , attached to 30 MU, was killed at 23:00 Hours in an off duty road accident on the Welsh Road at Queensferry, being dead on arrival at SSQ at RAF Sealand