460730 - Unaccounted Airmen - 30-07-1946

[Alex Smart]

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460730 - Unaccounted Airmen - 30-07-1946

From Henk's List -

CANADA
HODGSON, Edwin Donald - Sgt - R/110937 - RCAF.
Winnipeg ( Brookside ) Cemetery, Manitoba, Canada.

SOUTH AFRICA
OOSTHUIZEN, G. J. D. - Air Cpl - 61579V - SAAF.
George Old Cemetery, Western Cape, South Africa.

UK
BACH, Vaughan Charles Simon - F/Lt - 72776 - RAFVR.
Kilsby ( St. Faith ) Churchyard, Northamptonshire.
WARD, Albert Edgar - F/O( Flying Instr) - 180247 - RAFVR.
Birmingham ( Handsworth ) Cemetery, Warwickshire.

From CWGC & Geof's Sites -

INDIA
RAM Dayal Vyas - LAC - 32750 - RIAF.
Delhi/Karachi 1939-1945 War Memorials, India.

Alex

[wwrsimon]

Alex

UK
BACH, Vaughan Charles Simon - F/Lt - 72776 - the Rugby Advertiser of August 2nd 1946 reported the following:

DEATH OF MR. V. C. S. BACH
Service in Two World Wars
A RA.F. officer who served in the last two wars, and between them was a member of the Royal Irisih Constabulary, Mr. Vuaghan Charles Simon Bach (46), "The Lawn," Kilsby, died in Northampton General Hospital, on Tuesday. Eldest son of the Rev. Charles Bach and of Mrs. Bach of Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Mr. Bach had been in failing health for some time.
Born in northampton, Mr. Bach was educated at Bromsgrove School and Oxford, and during the 1914-1918 war he served with the R.N.A.S., afterwards the R.F.C., becoming a pilot officer. Following his demobilisation in 1919 he joined the Royal Irish Constabulary and was shot through the hand in one of the Sinn Fein riots. He was placed on the reserve of officers and with the rank of Flight Lieut. He served in this country with the transport service of the R.A.F. throughout the last war.

WARD, Albert Edgar - F/O (Flying Instr) - 180247 - registered Kettering. The Graves Registration Report Form givs his unit as 6 E.F.T.S.

Regards

Simon

[CZ_RAF]

Hi,

CANADA
HODGSON, Edwin Donald - Sgt - R/110937 - RCAF.
Winnipeg ( Brookside ) Cemetery, Manitoba, Canada.

According to his record "post discharge death", discharged on 26. 4. 1946 with diagnostics of coronary insufficiency

Pavel

[RecklessRat]

OOSTHUIZEN, G. J. D. - Air Cpl - 61579V

Gert Jeremias Daniel Oosthuizen
Died at Jetty Street, Port Elizabeth, 'Cause of Death to follow'

I have found a couple of these marked the same regarding cause of death, but there seems to be no amendment or memo added to the file.
Note that his age is given as 39 and some other details also differ from the CWGC, however his name, service number, DoD, etc. all match.

From FamilySearch again
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61...168&cc=2517051
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61...169&cc=2517051

[jonheyworth]

Albert Edgar Ward 180247 , attached to Number 6 EFTS, was killed in a motorcycle accident near Kettering on the Kettering to Wellingborough Road, being dead on arrival at Kettering general hospital

[jonheyworth]

Ram Dayal Vyas 32750, attached to Number 31 C&M Party , was taken ill whilst on a 48 Hours pass on 16 July and was admitted to Jaura hospital on 26 July where he died of anaemia