470509- Unaccounted Airmen - 09 - 05 -1947

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

470509- Unaccounted Airmen - 09 - 05 -1947

From Henk's List -

UK
BRENNAN, Arthur Patrick - Sqn/Ldr - 31484 - RAF.
Romford Cemetery, Essex.
KEAN, Derrick Edmund - Sgt - 1818586 - RAFVR.
Shrewsbury General Cemetery, Shropshire.

From CWGC list -

CANADA
SMITH, Graham Archibald - LAC - R/86955 - RCAF.
Edmonton (Beechmount) Cemetery, Alberta, Canada.

INDIA
NATARAJAN, P - AC1c - 101532 -RIAF - 1 Sqn.
ROBERTS, David Benjamin - LAC - 27617 - RIAF.
SENAPATHI, S - AC1c - 46651 - RIAF.
These three airmen are remembered on the Delhi/Karachi 1939-1945 War Memorials, India.

JAPAN
COOK, James Albert - LAC - 131706 - RAAF.
Yokohama War Cemetery, Japan.


Alex

[alieneyes]

CANADA
SMITH, Graham Archibald - LAC - R/86955 - RCAF.
Edmonton (Beechmount) Cemetery, Alberta, Canada.

Deceased asphyxiation in house fire in Edmonton.

Dave

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

JAPAN.

131706 LAC James Albert COOK RAAF.

131706 LAC James Albert COOK RAAF, of No.76 Squadron, RAAF, was killed in a ground accident at Bofu, Japan, on 9 May, 1947.

Col.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

UK
BRENNAN, Arthur Patrick - Sqn/Ldr - 31484 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at the R.A.F. Hospital, Uxbridge.

KEAN, Derrick Edmund - Sgt - 1818586 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at The Memorial Hospital, Peterborough.

Regards

Simon

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

JAPAN.

131706 LAC James Albert COOK RAAF.

131706 LAC James Albert COOK RAAF, of No.76 Squadron, RAAF, was killed in a ground accident at Bofu, Japan, on 9 May, 1947.

Col.

Hello,

A bit more on the demise of LAC James Albert COOK (DMT) RAAF:

LAC COOK RAAF, of No.76 Sqn Detachment at 481 Maintenance Sqn. 81 (Fighter Wing), RAAF, BOFU, died as a result of injuries received in the early hours of the morning of 9th May, 1947, when he apparently fell from an emergency escape rope hanging from the second floor window of his barracks block at Bofu, Japan. Various members of the RAAF had been using the rope as a means of exit and entrance to the building. It was assumed that this was a quick method of reaching the ground for the purpose of urinating, not to mention the unobserved entry and exiting of the building.

Storr (rev.).

Col.

[jonheyworth]

Arthur Patrick Brennan 31484 | attached to HQ Number 61 Group | was admitted seriously ill to RAF hospital Uxbridge on 7 May 1947, dying at 02:45 Hours following a resection of the bowel