470104 - Unaccounted Airmen - 04 - 01-1947

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

470104 - Unaccounted Airmen - 04 - 01-1947

From Henk's List -

UK
SPOONLEY, Robert John - LAC - 1408798 - RAFVR.
Talsarnau ( Soar ) Methodist Chapelyard, Merionethshire.

From CWGC -

AUSTRALIA
WOODHEAD, Gilbert Ernest - LAC - 117606 - RAAF.
Springvale War Cemetery, Melbourne, Australia.

INDIA
KEANE, John Joseph - Cpl - 1907337 - RAFVR.
Madras War Cemetery, Chennai, India.

UK
HILL, Alan John - Cpl -:646432 - RAF.
Croydon ( Mitcham Road) Cemetery, Surrey.

Alex

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

AUSTRALIA.

117606 LAC Gilbert Ernest WOODHEAD RAAF.

117606 LAC Gilbert Ernest WOODHEAD RAAF, of No.37 (Transport) Squadron, RAAF, passed away from a unspecified illness (DOAS), at the Heidelberg Military Hospital. Victoria, on January, 1947.

Col.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

UK
SPOONLEY, Robert John - LAC - 1408798 - a family tree on ancestry.co.uk records that he died at Llangwyfan Sanatorium. It states he died on April 4th 1947 but that's clearly an error, as his death was registered in March!

INDIA
KEANE, John Joseph - Cpl - 1907337 - HQ (U) 2 Ind. Group.

UK
HILL, Alan John - Cpl - 646432 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at 39 Woodcroft Road, Croydon. The address is now Croydon University Hospital.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

John Joseph Keane 1907337 , attached to HQ Number 2 Indian Group, drowned in an off duty boating accident on Vimanapura Lake, Bangalore, his body being recovered on 7 January

[jonheyworth]

Alan John Hill 646432 , a medically discharged Airman at the time of his death, gassed himself in the oven at home at Cecil Road, West Croydon. He had been 20 yards from an exploding bomb in an air raid on the bridge at Uxbridge Station on 24 October 1940 and had suffered with his ears and with headaches and blackouts

[jonheyworth]

John Spoonley 1408798, a medically discharged airman at the time of his death, died in the North Wales Sanatorium, Denbigh, of pulmonary tuberculosis