The Unaccounted Project - Final Stretch Updates by Jon Heyworth

[Jagan]

Fieldhouse 591216 was missed off the updates

Can you repost that Jon? Cant seem to locate the record.

PS: 3,012 are still unaccounted. need 13 more!

[jonheyworth]

Rossiter 576400 is still erroneously listed as Empire Star

[Andy Marden]

Christian Knut Langaard 98601 , attached to 4 SAAF squadron, was shot down in Tomahawk IIB AK555 on 25 April. He bailed out over the sea and was recovered from the water , but died when the hospital Ship Ramb IV was bombed and sunk whilst evacuatiing patients from Tobruk to Egypt

The current entry on this database is incorrect

Jon,
Can you clarify what exactly is incorrect please, so that it can be amended?
Andy

[Jagan]

Jon,
Can you clarify what exactly is incorrect please, so that it can be amended?
Andy

I guess he was never a POW death? The current entry will need to be associated with AK555 and the extra text Jon shared can be added in.

[Andy Marden]

OK Jagan, I'll leave that amendment to you.

[jonheyworth]

Jon,
Can you clarify what exactly is incorrect please, so that it can be amended?
Andy

Hi Andy , he was never a POW . I’m assuming , that someone assumed he died on a torpedoed axis ship en route to Italy as a POW and entered that on this database , but it’s wholly incorrect . He’s not the only Airman who died on the RAMB IV being evacuated from Tobruk but until Jagan sent me the POW list t’other day , I’d not picked him up in the errors and partially accounted Airmen on here . They are the hardest to pick out , I’d already been all through the Alamein memorial double checking and still missed a few

[Jagan]

For Christian Knut Langaard 98601. The original source was from this death certificate on family search https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61...-M9Y4-M?i=1150

[jonheyworth]

For Christian Knut Langaard 98601. The original source was from this death certificate on family search https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61...-M9Y4-M?i=1150

If you want a little more Jagan , he bailed out but was badly burnt but still reached shore by dinghy , after being shot down 16 miles North of Gazala Derna Grid 353459 at approximately 11:30 Hours . He was born in Oslo and joined the SAAF from Mozambique in July 1940 , then through 73 , 63, 2 and 22 AS Wings , finishing 26 Seltember 1941 , then to 94 Squadron October to December 1941, thence to 71 OTU till March 1942. He was attached to 1 Squadron from 17 March to 6 April 1942 and to 4 Squadron on 11 April, where he lasted for a mere 2 weeks before being shot down in combat with 109s

[jonheyworth]

Arthur Edward Fox 2266625 , attached to AHQ Italy, was killed in a traffic accident 2 miles North of Grado

[jonheyworth]

Robert Hanna 1029482 , a medically discharged Airman at the time of his death, died in the Whiteabbey Sanatorium of pulmonary tuberculosis and amylordois with his Father Mr. Robert Hanna of 14 Rathgan Street, Belfast , at his bedside