391213 - Unaccounted Airmen - 13-12-1939

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

391213 - Unaccounted Airmen - 13-12-1939

From Henk's List -

UK
NAYLOR, Ernest John - Lac - 569573 - RAF - 149 Sqn.
Reading Crematorium, Oxfordshire.

From CWGC -

EGYPT
BINGHAM, Samuel - Sqdn/Ldr - 10190 - RAF.
Alexandria ( Chatby ) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.

UK
COLMER, William Leonard - P/O(Pilot) - 42473 - RAF - 214 Sqn.
RUSSELL-FORBES, Rex Alan - P/O(Pilot) - 41743 - RAF - 214 Sqn.
The above two airmen rest at Feltwell ( St. Nicholas ) Churchyard, Norfolk.
WARRINER, John Thomas - Lac - 615941 - RAF - 214 Sqn.
Bolton Percy ( All Saints ) Churchyard, Yorkshire.
The three airmen named above were crew of Wellington I, R2699 of 214 Sqn.
McCLUGGAGE, Edward - Sgt(Pilot) - 521091 - RAF - 236 Sqn.
Larne ( McGarel ) Cemetery, County Antrum.
[ Magister I - R1816 - 236 Sqn ].
SMITH, Warren Alexander - Lac( Cadet) - 581766 - RAF.
Bristol ( Arnos Vale ) Crematorium, Gloucestershire.
[ Audax I - K7423 - RAF Cranwell ].

Alex

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

NAYLOR - He was serving with No 149 Sqn and died from injuries in hospital following a car accident on Epping New Road, whilst returning from a special leave.

Malcolm

[wwrsimon]

Wasn't this posted yesterday? I'm sure I posted the details of Naylor's accident and the inquest...?

Anyway:

His death was reported in several newspapers at the time, under the name John Naylor. The Liverpool Echo of December 13th 1939 reported:

LIFE AND DEATH
Leading Aircraftman John Naylor (19), who came safely through one of the Heligoland raids, was killed in a motor accident at Epping Forest after spending leave at his home in Marlow, Bucks, where he showed his parents a piece of shrapnel which had struck his plane.

The inquest was reported in the Essex Newsman of December 23rd 1939. Naylor was a passenger in a car driven by Aircraftman Jack Landgridge, which struck the rear of a stationary lorry on Epping New Road at Buckhurst Hill in the black-out. A verdict of accidental death was returned.

Regards

Simon

[Alex Smart]

S/Ldr(E) Samuel BINGHAM, RAF Depot Middle East, Aboukir, Equipment Branch.
Age at date of death was 47 years.

[jonheyworth]

Samuel Bingham 10190, attached at Air HQ ME, Died of a coronary thrombosis