1939 Unaccounted Airmen Database Reconciliation

**brian** · 18th March 2009, 17:58

Hi Henk

I'm not aware if any the of following were on your 1939 list, but I have just come across these while researching at Kew:

4/9/39
AC2 Thompson 621154 149 Sqn Died of injuries following motor cycle accident Newmarket
AC2 Hoey 615404 149 Sqn AG - seriously injured in same accident

24/9/39
AC R.G. Davies 528576 144 Sqn. Died of injuries following road accident Scunthorpe

13/12/39
LAC Ernest John Naylor 567513 149 Sqn. Died in hospital following car accident on Epping New Road.

15/12/39
LAC John Travers Smith 520179 149 Sqn Died in hospital after being knocked off bicycle by car on Newmarket Road.

Hope this helps
Brian

**Henk Welting** · 19th March 2009, 15:35

Thanks Brian for additional info. Most was in my files however every piece makes a story complete. THOMPSON recorded by CWGC as THOMSON and only with initial "T".
Death of NAYLOR was very tragic: he died in Forest Hospital Buckhurst Hill, Essex. Accident happened returning to his unit after 6 days' special leave awarded for the part he had played on the recent successful flight over Heligoland.
Regards,
Henk.

**paulmcmillan** · 8th November 2016, 10:48

AC.A T. Samuel C. STOTT - 129853 - buried Botton (Heaton) Cem., Lancashire (UK513).

129853 STOTT died on active service

1 FTS ORB has:

29.12.39 No.129853 A C STOTT, cook and butcher died at home whilst on leave

**Jagan** · 2nd December 2018, 19:57

And just for sake of completion -1939

Year/Month	Total Records	Still Unaccounted
1939	689	168 (24%)

September	209	53 (25%)
October	137	43 (32%)
November	158	34 (22%)
December	185	38 (21%)

http://www.rafcommands.com/database/wardead/table.php Link above will give latest numbers. Current (4/12/2018) Unaccounted number is 101!

**paulmcmillan** · 3rd December 2018, 09:23

Geoffrey SLADE 524194 1939-09-04, Israel and Palestine · Ramleh War Cemetery

Aircraftman G. Slade was mortally injured and another aircraftman was seriously injured on Monday by the explosion of a land-mine beneath an R.A.F. truck near Hebron. Hebron has been put under indefinite curfew. 'Times' Telegrams. ...

Published: Thursday 07 September 1939
Newspaper: Western Daily Press

**paulmcmillan** · 3rd December 2018, 09:32

Frank Ashton Bowyer of 42 Ashley-street Rock Ferry Birkenhead died 3 Spept 1939 at Chester Royal Infirmary Chester

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar#calendar

**dennis_burke** · 3rd December 2018, 09:36

OK, I figured out I was duplicating some information last night. While its not me doing the donkey work, I'd still link to the DOAS people, to direct people to those threads and prevent a relative or researcher starting a new thread. But down the line maybe.

I had thought some of those people last night were new to the whole endeavour. It brought me back to my heady days when I was single, looking up the unaccounted into the wee small hours.

**paulmcmillan** · 3rd December 2018, 10:09

Aircraftman 1st Class George William HART (350110)

Published: Tuesday 05 September 1939
Newspaper: Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 223 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

STOCKTON VERDICT Middlesbrough Cyclist’s “Accidental Death” Accidental death was the verdict at
inquest held at Stockton Hospital last night on George W. Hart (36). of 30, Esscx-street,
Middlesbrough, who was fatally injured iin an accident on the Thornaby-Middlesbrough road late on Saturday night, when riding home on a cycle from
Thornaby aerodrome where he was employed a radio operator. John Robert Thompson, 20. St. Aidan’setreet, Middlesbrough,
said that on Saturdav ...

road. He was riding a bicycle in company with Hart and was near the entrance to Stockton Racecourse when heard
Hart call out. At the same moment two cars travelling very fast passed him and carried Hart’s cycle along the road.
One of the cars pulled ...

**paulmcmillan** · 3rd December 2018, 11:45

John Joseph WALSH (233835)

Published: Tuesday 19 September 1939
Newspaper: Berwickshire News and General Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 503 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WALSH.— Inverness Infirmary, Sept. 4, John Joseph Walsh aged 44.—R.IP

**paulmcmillan** · 3rd December 2018, 11:48

Sergeant Owen Lobb Dunkirk HOWELLS (564670) Pilot

http://www.oldhaltonians.co.uk/pages/rememb/ROH/H.htm

22 564670 Howells, Owen Lobb Dunkirk Sgt. 04-Sep-39 24 Sage War Cemetery, Germany. Pilot, 107 Squadron.Bristol Blenheim IV N6189,OM- . T/o Wattisham 16:00 for Wilhelmshaven. Shot down by flak approaching target.S