400328 - Unaccounted Airmen - 28-03-1940

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

400328 - Unaccounted Airmen - 28-03-1940

From Henk's List -

SOUTH AFRICA
LUSH, James Edwin - Air Sgt - 29387 - SAAF.
Durban ( Stellawood ) Cremation Memorial, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
Died at the Seaforth Hotel, Cause ?

UK
CRANE, Donald Alfred - F/O - 72170 - RAFVR.
Padgate ( Christ Church ) Churchyard, Lancashire.
Died at RAF Hospital, Poulton. Cause ?
GEDDES, Richard Ingram - AC1c - 548203 - RAF.
MacDuff ( Myrus ) Cemetery, Banffshire.
DOAS, Cause ?
GRIFFITS, James Olliff - P/O(Pilot) - 41692 - RAF - 222 Sqn.
Whittles Ford ( SS. Mary and Andrew ) Churchyard, Cambridgeshire.
[ Magister I - L5953 - 222 Sqn.
PATTEN, Guy - LA - FX.77508 - HMS Peregrine - RN.
Stoneykirk Cemetery, Wigtownshire.
DOAS, Cause ?

From CWGC -

GERMANY
NORMAN, Graham Louis - P/O - 70871 - RAF - 77 Sqn.
Rheinberg War Cemetery, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
[ Whitley V - N1351 - 77 Sqn ].

NETHERLANDS
MILLER, James Emerson - Sgt(Obs) - 580921 - RAF - 77 Sqn.
Rotterdam ( Crooswijk ) General Cemetery, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
[ Whitley V - N1357 - 77 Sqn ].

Alex

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

GEDDES, Richard Ingram - He was serving at RAF Kinloss died in Gray's Hospital, Elgin as the result of heart failure under anaesthetic during an operation to remove an obstruction of the small intestine.

Malcolm

[wwrsimon]

Hello

PATTEN, Guy - LA - FX.77508 - HMS Peregrine - ADM 104 has two entries for him. He slipped from the towing bar of a petrol bowser and was run over at West Freugh, sustaining a compound fracture of the skull and fractured ribs, from which he died as a result.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Richard Ingram Geddes 548203, attached to RAF Kinloss, died in Grays hospital, Elgin of heart failure during an operation to remove an intestinal obstruction

[jonheyworth]

Donald Alfred Crane 72170 , attached to RAF Padgate, died in the station hospital of peritonitis from a perforated duodenal ulcer