461104 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 04-11-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

461104 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 04-11-1946

From Henk's List -

WAAF
UK
BIGNELL, Marjorie Rose - ACW2c - 469272 - WAAF.
Wallington ( Bandon Hill ) Cemetery, Surrey.

EGYPT
WHITE, George Henry - W/O - 634981 - RAF - 575 Sqdn.
Heliopolis War Cemetery, Egypt.

UK
KING, Andrew - Sqn/Ldr - 79849 - RAFVR.
Golders Green Crematorium, Middlesex.
LODGE, George Henry - Cpl - 905275 - RAFVR.
Barking ( Rippleside ) Cemetery, Essex.
NERI, Peter - LAC - 1337526 - RAFVR.
Tavistock New Cemetery, Devon.

From CWGC & Geoff's Sites -

IRAQ
ESHU, Binyamin - Lance Cpl - 3542 - RAF Iraq Levies.
Habbania Memorial, Iraq.

Alex

[wwrsimon]

Hello

WAAF
UK
BIGNELL, Marjorie Rose - ACW2c - 469272 - the Hartlepool Mail, as well as a couple of other newspapers, reported that her body was found on the railway line near West Norwood, dressed in her pyjamas. She was an orphan, had recently been demobbed from the W.A.A.F., and had been ill for some time. The spot where her body was found could be reached from the garden of her aunt's house, where she had been staying. The 60 year old railway foreman who found her body collapsed and died of shock at the stationmaster's office after reporting the find.

UK
KING, Andrew - Sqn/Ldr - 79849 - the National Probate Calendar records his name as Andrew Nathaniel King, and that he died at the Westminster Hospital, London S.W.1.

LODGE, George Henry - Cpl - 905275 - also registered Westminster.

NERI, Peter - LAC - 1337526 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at Hawkmoor Sanatorium, Bovey Tracey, Devonshire. The Western Morning News of November 7th 1946 reported his death, and included the following:

A member of Tavistock Town band and the parish church choir, Mr. Neri served in S.E.A.C. with an Air Sea Rescue unit of the R.A.F. during the war.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

George Henry White 634981 , was shot by a sentry between the YMCA of Number 22 PTC and Number 2 Area orderly room, whilst returning to his tent from the YMCA AT 21:15 Hours. Admitted dangerously ill to Number 5 RAF Hospital, he died at 22:45 Hours of a gun shot wound to the chest

[jonheyworth]

Andrew King 79849 , attached to the RAF Regiment Depot, died at 04:15 Hours in the Westminster hospital, London, of carcinoma of the lung with his wife, Mrs M.B, King, of Harley Gardens, London SW10, at his bedside

[jonheyworth]

Peter Neri 1337526 | was admitted seriously ill to Number 126 IBG hospital in Poona on 13 October 1945. He was evacuated to the U.K. and admitted to the Connaught hospital in Aldershot and then to RAF hospital Church Village in 10 December 1945. Transferred dangerously I’ll to Hawksmoor sanatorium, Bovey Tracey where he died of pulmonary tuberculosis