410128 - Unaccounted Airmen - 28-01-1941

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

410128 - Unaccounted Airmen - 28-01-1941

From Henk's List -

EGYPT
BEISER, Herbert (Israel) - AC2c - 774152 - RAFVR.
BURNS, Robert John Ernest - AC1c - 612798 - RAF.
HERRIOTT, Frederick William - AC1c - 756795 - RAFVR.
HOLMES, Claude Frank - AC2c - 928175 - RAFVR.
LEES, Douglas Hedley - AC2c - 1015482 - RAF.
LEVY-HAARSCHER, Abraham Leopold - AC2c - 775546 - RAFVR.
MITCHELL, Frederick Gordon - Lac - 744015 - RAFVR.
REYNOLDS, James - AC1c - 626937 - RAFVR.
SPITTLE, Arthur George - AC1c - 962728 - RAFVR.
STEVENS, Harold - Sgt - 355929 - RAF.
These ten airmen are commemorated on the Alamein Memorial, Egypt.
They were all killed in an ammunition explosion at HQ No.202 Group at Sidi Mahmoud, near Tobruk.
See AIR 81/4952.

MALTA
CAMERON, Douglas Hunter - Sgt - 517813 - RAF.
MAY, Arthur Harry - Sgt - 365514 - RAF.
REAY, Thomas - Sgt - 751646 - RAFVR.
WARREN, Wilfred - Sgt - 349651 - RAF.
These four airmen rest at the Malta (Capuccini) Naval Cemetery, Malta.
They were serving with 148 Sqdn and were all killed when two bombs fell making a direct hit's on their Sgts Block during an Air Raid.

SOUTH AFRICA
CLUBB, George Wallace - F/Sgt - 95631 - SAAF.
Thaba Tshwane (Old No.1)Military Cemetery, Gauteng, South Africa.
Aged 62 years. Death caused by Epithelioma of the Unirary Bladder and Rectal Abscesses.

UK
DITCH, Arthur Samuel - Sgt - 1377428 - RAFVR - 604 Sqdn.
Seaford Cemetery, Sussex.
Cause of death, acute Appendicitis.
Henk has/had this Airman's death as 28th January 1941.
CWGC has the death as 28th January, 1942.
So which is correct ?

ZIMBABWE
PEDLEY, Roy Charles - Sgt - 922076 - RAFVR
Harare (Pioneer) Cemetery, Zimbabwe.
Harvard - P5957 - 20 SFTS.

From CWGC -

AUSTRALIA
NEWMAN, John Ignatius - P/O - 819 - RAAF.
Toowoomba Cemetery, Queensland, Australia.

RAINBOW,James Manning - Sqdn/Ldr - RAAF.
SKILLMAN, Henry Theodore - F/O - 625 - RAAF.
SAWYER, Bailey Middlebrook - P/O - 1704 - RAAF (Passenger).
These three airmen commemorated on the New South Wales Cremation Memorial, Sydney, Australia.

TYSOE, Charles Richard - AC1c - 5922 - RAAF.
Geelong Western Public Cemetery, Victoria, Australia.

The above five airmen were all Killed when Anson I - A4-5 crashed at Gelnbrook, N.S.W. on a medical flight.

UK
MILLAR,John Forest Morton - F/O - 42051 - RAF.
Edinburgh (Grange)Cemetery, Edinburgh.
Wellington Ic - R1164 - 20 OTU.
See AIR 81/4936.

PEARSON, Thomas Bell - Lac - 1006454 - RAFVR.
Edinburgh (Liberton)Cemetery, Edinburgh.
PRATT, George Freeman - Lac - 1002544 - RAFVR.
Waverton (St.Peter) Churchyard, Cheshire.
COOKE, Basil Roper - Sgt - 580014 - RAF.
Monkton and Prestwick Cemetery, Ayrshire.
These three airmen were crew of Anson I - N4939 - 1 AoNS.
See AIR 81/4948.

Alex