The Unaccounted Project - Final Stretch Updates by Jon Heyworth

[jonheyworth]

're Bromwich below, a CORRECTION ALL should read APM

[jonheyworth]

UPGRADE to Arnold Alfred Larson 1133193. He was Fatally injured when Wellington HE346 exploded at Kairrouan whilst being bombed up. Taken to hospital with bomb splinter wounds, he died when pneumonia complicated his wounds, also killed instantly in the accident where . :

Albert John Pryor 1247022 and

John Richardson 854296

[paulmcmillan]

Walter Stephen Stanley Sternberg
Aircraftman 1st Class
Service number 1646374
Died 21 Apr 1943
Commemorated at Golders Green Crematorium
Age 34

https://www.thejewsoftheraf.co.uk/st...ephen-stanley/

[paulmcmillan]

SUTHERLAND, EDWIN KEITH (971576) RAFVR; age: 25.

He was serving as a Ground Armourer with No 179 Sqn

1943-08-21 · 179 Sqdn AIR27 · Gibraltar · Gibraltar Memorial.


179 ORB Says Corp Sutherland ARM.G Died on 21st Aug 1943

[jonheyworth]

The ORB is poor but there’s a notation elsewhere that states “ flying accident “
I have no more than that in this notebook but who knows I may have more in another when I can get to wales post covid and may be able to upgrade it later

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

Larson - his surname was Marson

Malcolm

[jonheyworth]

Robert Fields Patterson 1662933 died as a result of heat exhaustion

[Jagan]

All Updated to this point - 7,445 are still unaccounted. 6.08% of the airmen

[jonheyworth]

Anytime Jagan, thanks for adding them . 0.8 percent to 6 percent left. OK, let's see !

[jonheyworth]

UPGRADE to James Ewan 1368083, on 20th September 1941, he was hitchhiking to Dundee with two other airmen. A lorry approached as they were on north water bridge near Laurencekirk and Ewan stepped into the road to stop it. The lorry braked but skidded on the wet road and hit him, badly fracturing both his legs. He was conveyed to Strathcaro hospital where he died over two months later