POW and Evaders Database Work

[alieneyes]

R80015/J17545 W/O (later F/Lt) Samuel Wilson Hunter RCAF No. 72 Squadron POW Spitfire EN303

Over the last couple of years I have been ID-ing all the Manitoba airmen shown here: http://aircrewremembered.com/featuredstory.html

Born Ballymena, Co. Antrim 14 May 1919; deceased New Westminster BC 28 December 1984

11 November 1942 - 22 April 1943 (Sweeps, escorts, patrols and scrambles) 83h, 45m

Took off 1600 22 April 1943

Missing 22 April 1943 Target Tunis area

40 m SW of Tunis; forced landing, injured right knee

Stalag Luft 1

Stalag Luft III

There was no logbook in his service file.

Regards,

Dave

[jonheyworth]

If anyone encounters a POW who died in captivity with no actual cause listed, could you point him out to me please

[Andy Marden]

The POW entry for Sqn Ldr Brinsden needs amending:
http://www.rafcommands.com/database/...php?uniq=HX826
Both men were captured on 17 Aug 43, the loss date for Mosquito HX826 is confirmed in AIR27/306/16: https://discovery.nationalarchives.g...ils/r/D8410002

[Andy Marden]

The entry for Sgt Butcher on lancaster NE112: http://www.rafcommands.com/database/...php?uniq=NE112
shows him as both a POW and an evader.

[78SqnHistory]

I have just noticed an error on the database in respect of 1322940 John William KNIGHT, the current entry shows him being taken prisoner as a member of 100 Squadron on 10/11/40. the correct detail should read:

1322940 Sgt John William KNIGHT. WHITLEY V T4156 EY-L Lost on ops to RUHLAND 20/11/40. 78 SQN STALAG 357 POW No. 1168

thanks
Mutley

[Mike4898]

Looks like the D/B is missing my father (F/Sgt John Edgar Wainwright) his flight engineer (Sgt William Robinson). Both evaded after being shot down in 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron Lancaster ME699 on 4th/5th July 1944.

[edbeau99]

R80015/J17545 W/O (later F/Lt) Samuel Wilson Hunter RCAF No. 72 Squadron POW Spitfire EN303

Over the last couple of years I have been ID-ing all the Manitoba airmen shown here: http://aircrewremembered.com/featuredstory.html

Born Ballymena, Co. Antrim 14 May 1919; deceased New Westminster BC 28 December 1984

11 November 1942 - 22 April 1943 (Sweeps, escorts, patrols and scrambles) 83h, 45m

Took off 1600 22 April 1943

Missing 22 April 1943 Target Tunis area

40 m SW of Tunis; forced landing, injured right knee

Stalag Luft 1

Stalag Luft III

There was no logbook in his service file.

Regards,

Dave

Mr. Hunter was my high school physics teacher at Princess Margaret Senior Secondary in Surrey. You have the name as Samuel Wilson, but in our 1968 yearbook, the name given is W S Hunter, and that is what appears in the B.C. Archives death certificate (Wilson Samuel).

It is interesting that Volume 3 of A History of the Mediterranean Air War by Shores and Massimello has somewhat different information for that date. They show the name as W.H. Hunter, and the aircraft serial as EN311. I had previously considered their work as the last word, but obviously a number of errors in it.

Ed Beauregard

[Jagan]

Looks like the D/B is missing my father (F/Sgt John Edgar Wainwright) his flight engineer (Sgt William Robinson). Both evaded after being shot down in 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron Lancaster ME699 on 4th/5th July 1944.

He is there

http://www.rafcommands.com/database/...T&qnum=1453555

cant find William Robinson though - there are two William Robinsons in the DB but tagged to other ac

http://www.rafcommands.com/database/...qname=Robinson

[Mike4898]

Thanks for the link for my father's details, I am not sure why I couldn't find it myself.

Two got out of the aircraft and both evaded having been hidden by the resistance. My father's IS9 report states that they were separated after about a week and sent to different families for safe keeping.

William (Bill) Robinson, RAF service number 1777532, was the Flight Engineer and was the second man, with my Father, to survive the aircraft being shot down. He also evaded capture having been looked after (I believe) by the Morels family in Giencourt, France. I have been told that he was a Scot, and also that he was yet another Yorkshireman. So far I have had no trace of what happened to Bill after his return to the UK in September 1944. His IS9 report is unfortunately missing from the archives.

He is mentioned at https://redtarget.pagesperso-orange....er%20JB370.htm

Any help tracing Bill Robinson would be much appreciated.

[Jagan]

thank you for the number - used that to figure out that he is there in the DB.. but its the views that are a bit messed up. If I look up in the aircraft view, I can see him listed http://www.rafcommands.com/database/...php?uniq=ME699 but his name needs completing, which I will do