421031 - Unaccounted airmen - 31-10-1942

[Henk Welting]

I should have known that Sgt REID was on Kittyhawk FL879 where I read now in Errol's Vols 1 and 2 (resp. pages 265 and 204/206) that S/Ldr John E.A. WILLIAMS - DFC - Mid - 40652 (RAF from NZ) was at the controls of FR270. Too premature with my thread on the Forum. A lesson learned !
Regards,
Henk.

[paulmcmillan]

Re numbers in 8xx series


I am sure that some on ths baord I have read that some older re-called to service men in the UK were given 'weird' service numbers.. Could it be the same case be in Australia?


Paul

[Ross_McNeill]

Hi Henk,

F1180
Oxford I - BG665 confirms SR Williams and J H Williams as the two fatalities.

Regards
Ross

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Ross for info Sydney and Ienan (Iouan - initials "J.H.") WILLIAMS, both casualties 31.10.42 on Oxford BG665. I didn't come up with this serial in my msg # 1 as Air Britain in BA100-BZ999 (latest edition) has for BG665 lost 31.10.19"43" !
Regards,
Henk.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

AC1 Peter BAIRD - 1545735 and
AC1 Reginald G. LATHEY - 1193486 - the Statutory Deaths Register on the Scotland's People website records that they both died at 0.15 p.m. (presumably 12.15 p.m.), in a field near the water works, Old Polmont, due to accidental electrocution.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

UPGRADE to Clifford Goodall Coburn C 1717 , senior equipment officer at RCAF Patricia Bay, he was medically retired on 7th December 1941 following a coronary thrombosis thereafter he died at the Christie Street hospital Toronto of myocardial faliure and arteriosclerosis

[jonheyworth]

UPGRADE to Harry Nathaniel McRae R 51585 , he was medically discharged unfit for any further duty on 4th September 1942

[jonheyworth]

UPGRADE to Richard Norman Jeffs, an aero engine mechanic, he died in the Shaughenessy hospital, Vancouver, during a Nicola operation to correct repeated shoulder dislocations

[jonheyworth]

William Frederick Ham 865165 , attached to Number 3 MT Squadron , was admitted dangerously ill to the Canada Infirmary , Bangor on 23 October, where he died of a perforated ulcer

[jonheyworth]

Geoffrey Turton 1658584 | attached to RAF Melksham | as an ACH/DMT, was admitted dangerously ill to RAF hospital Melksham on 20 October where he died of regional phlebitis and peritonitis