The Unaccounted Project - Final Stretch Updates by Jon Heyworth

[paulmcmillan]

Alphonse Ashford 541690 , attached to 806 Defence Squadron, died in RAF Hospital Rauceby, of cerebral contusions and a fractured skull sustained when he fell from a moving lorry

Thanks another 1941 one off the list!!!

[Jagan]

2,493 are still unaccounted.

119,940 records (97.96%) are "Accounted for".

(Still have to process Malcolm's corrections)

[paulmcmillan]

So below 2500 at last (+/- allowance for Malcolm corrections) and only around 50 to get above 98%

Well done all (especially Jon and Malcom for his X-Check)

[jonheyworth]

Walter George Bryant 1193821, attached to 159 Squadron, died in Number 39 CCS of malaria

[jonheyworth]

Thomas George Skeats CBE 10051 , attached to 56 MU, was admitted dangerously ill to RAF Hospital Northallerton on 21 November, where he died at 09:00 Hours of carcinoma of the rectum with his Wife, Mrs.M.L. Skeats of Harwell, Berks, at his bedside

[jonheyworth]

Kenneth Frederick lancelot Cole 1414316 , died in the Tower House EMS hospital, Salisbury, of bronchial pneumonia

[Jagan]

Updates done

122,433 casualty records in this database.
120,014 records (98.02%) are "Accounted for".
99,928 are aviation. 20,086 are non-aviation deaths.
2,419 are still unaccounted.


BOOM!! - we now have less than 2% unaccounted!!!

For 1.98% of the airmen from the Second World War, cause of death is not known

[CZ_RAF]

Amazing work! Many thanks to everyone who participated.

Pavel

[paulmcmillan]

Yes this is amazing target largely driven by Jon and also being helped by Malcolm cross checking some entries - luckily he is correcting some back to unaccounted slower than Jon is accounting for them!

Next target is below 2000 - I think that this will be slower now as these are the harder ones for Jon to find

[paulmcmillan]

Btw just seen that we hit 3000 in Oct 2022 and 2000 in jan 2023 so that is 1000 in 4 months