470926 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 26-09-1947

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

470926 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 26-09-1947

From Henk's List -

WAAF
UK
ROUTLEDGE, Joan - LACW - 2079631 - WAAF.
Seaham Cemetery, Durham.

UK
BINSTEAD, Colin Gordon - AC2c - 2318907 - RAFVR.
Bournemouth North Cemetery, Hampshire.
JONES, Douglas John - LAC - 634939 - RAF - 952 Balloon Sqdn.
Liverpool ( An field ) Cemetery, Lancashire.

From CWGC -

AUSTRALIA
SHEIL, Richard William - Sqn/Ldr - 261555 - RAAF.
Tasmania Cremation Memorial, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

CANADA
WARD, Francis Raymond - LAC - R/192541 - RCAF.
Burnaby ( Forest Lawn ) Memorial Park, British Columbia, Canada.

Alex

[alieneyes]

CANADA
WARD, Francis Raymond - LAC - R/192541 - RCAF.
Burnaby ( Forest Lawn ) Memorial Park, British Columbia, Canada.

Deceased pulmonary hemorrhage and pulmonary carcinoma at Kitsilano Private Hospital, Vancouver.

Dave

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

AUSTRALIA.

261555 S/L Richard William SHEIL RAAF.

261555 S/L (Pilot) Richard William 'Dick' SHEIL RAAF (ex- OC, No.34 (T) Sqn. RAAF - 17/3/1944 - 25/2/1946), was officially discharged from the RAAF on 5 March, 1946. He passed away (suddenly), at Launceston, Tasmania, from an unspecified illness, on 26 September, 1947.

Sheil was a pre-war Ansett Airways pilot, he was also a sales rep for the Fairchild Air Corp., in Australia. He enlisted in 1940, and initially took up instructing duties (at No.3 EFTS, Essendon, Victoria). His surname was often misspelt as "Shiel".

Col.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

WAAF
UK
ROUTLEDGE, Joan - LACW - 2079631 - registered Durham East.

UK
BINSTEAD, Colin Gordon - AC2c - 2318907 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at The Hospital, Savernake, Wiltshire.

JONES, Douglas John - LAC - 634939 - registered Liverpool North.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Joan Routledge 2079631 , a medically discharged Airwoman at the time of her death, died at 1 Maglona Street, Seaham , of pulmonary tuberculosis and chronic nephritis

Joan's death certificate was sponsored by Wil Cox of the Czech Republic in her memory

[jonheyworth]

Colin Gordon Binstead 2318907 | attached to Number 3 Radio School | was injured in an off duty road accident in 25 September near Malborough, dying in Savernake hospital