470803 - Unaccounted Airmen- 03-08-1947

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

470803 - Unaccounted Airmen- 03-08-1947

From Henk's List -

UK
HABBITTS, Barrie - AC2c - 2320788 - RAFVR.
Exeter Higher Cemetery, Devon.
PUSEY, Lionel Leroyd - AC1c - 725178 - RAFVR.
Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey.

From CWGC -

AUSTRALIA
MARCH, Darrell Kenneth - AC1c - 168760 - RAAF.
Wagga Wagga War Cemetery, New South Wales, Australia.

UK
MYLES, George Wilson - Lt(A) - HMS. Theseus - RN - 804 Sqn FAA.
Haslar Royal Navy Cemetery, Hampshire.
[ CWGC has this Naval Airman 's date of death as the 3rd August '47. But see 30th August '47 ? ].

Alex

[wwrsimon]

Hello

UK
HABBITTS, Barrie - AC2c - 2320788 - registered Exeter.

PUSEY, Lionel Leroyd - AC1c - 725178 - registered Aylesbury. He's recorded on the Register as 'Pusey - Lionel Le R."

MYLES, George Wilson - Lt (A) - HMS. Theseus - the National Probate Calendar records that he died on August 3rd 1947 at Wroughton, Wilts.

Regards

Simon

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

AUSTRALIA.

168760 AC1 Darrell Kenneth MARCH RAAF.

168760 AC1 (Trainee Fitter) Darrell Kenneth MARCH RAAF (of the Ground Training School, Allonville, near Wagga Wagga, N.S.W.), was killed in a motor car accident on 3 August, 1947. The vehicle, which was returning from Gundagai, overturned three or four times at Alfredtown, near Wagga, New South Wales at 1600 hours on 3 August. Besides the death of LAC MARCH RAAF, the following members of the RAAF were injured:

160578 AC1 Edward VICTOR RAAF* - Minor back injuries.
86159 AC1 William Murray WHITELEY RAAF* - Incised buttock wounds.
168740 AC1 Keith Stanley SUMNER RAAF* - Dislocated left shoulder.
155096 AC1 James Conway SANDERCOCK RAAF* - Abrasions.
168714 AC1 Ernest MACRAE RAAF* - Possible right ankle fracture.

* As recorded on March's A705.

All members were off duty.

Col.

[jonheyworth]

Lionel Leyrod ( LEYROL in some records ) Pusey 725178 , attached to RAF White Waltham , was admitted seriously ill to RAF Hospital Halton on 11 July suffering with malignant hypertension. Becoming dangerously ill on 23 July, he died of essential hypertension

[jonheyworth]

Barrie Habbitts 2320788 | attached to Number 15 Recruit’s Centre | was admitted seriously ill to the Royal Devon and Exeter hospital on 20 March. He was transferred to the Princess Elizabeth orthopaedic hospital at Buckrell Bores, Exeter where he was admitted to the I.R.C. Unit, dying of plasmacytoma