410216 - Unaccounted Airmen - 16-02-1941

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

410216 - Unaccounted Airmen - 16-02-1941

From Henk's List -

KENYA
VAN DER SPUY, Sybrandt Johannes - F/Sgt - 47242 - SAAF.
Nairobi War Cemetery, Kenya.
Cause of death reportedly accidental injuries. NFD.

From CWGC -

AUSTRALIA
DODGSHUN, Ronald Charles - P/O - 710 - RAAF.
Boxhill General Cemetery, Victoria, Australia.
GORDON, Ian Samuel - Lac - 402657 - RAAF.
Manly General Cemetery, New South Wales, Australia.
These two airmen were crew of Wirraway - A20 - 4 - 2 SFTS - RAAF.

UK
BROOK, Dudley Sherwood - P/O - 85936 - RAFVR.
Cardiff Western Cemetery, Glamorganshire.
Battle - L5755 - SFP.
See - AIR 81/5290.

BURLEY, Aubrey Jesse - Sgt - 976048 - RAFVR.
CAIRD, David Francis - P/O - 60331 - RAFVR.
These two airmen rest at Sutton Bridge (St. Matthew) Churchyard, Lincolnshire.
They were crew of Master I - N2043 - 56 OTU.
See AIR 81/5165.

NEVETT, Horace Arthur (Australian) - P/O - 86701 - RAFVR.
Luton Church Burial Ground, Bedfordshire.
Also aboard was Leading Airman B, G, A, BATTEN - RN.
Cannot find him anywhere ?
Magister I - R1813 - 24 EFTS.
See AIR 81/5074.

BEETZ, Wilhelm - GAF.
BRUETZAM, Karl-Guenther - GAF.
JANESCHITZ, Franz-Friedrich - GAF.
JECKSTADT, Helmut Herbert - GAF.
STYRA, Heinz - GAF.
These five German Airmen rest at Hylton (Castletown) Cemetery, Durham.

SPENCLEY, Arthur - Lac - 1252430 - RAFVR.
Morden Cemetery, Surrey.
Master I - N7932
5 SFTS.
See AIR 81/5163.

Alex

[wwrsimon]

Alex

NEVETT, Horace Arthur (Australian) - P/O - 86701 - RAFVR. Luton Church Burial Ground, Bedfordshire.
Also aboard was Leading Airman B, G, A, BATTEN - RN.
Cannot find him anywhere ?
Magister I - R1813 - 24 EFTS.
See AIR 81/5074.

Air 81 states that L/A Batten was killed (on February 10th?), but the 'World War II Index to Allied Airmen Roll of Honour, 1939-1945' on ancestry records that the Magister "stalled and crashed at Streatley 5 miles north of Luton, Beds during a training flight, the Pilot U/T Survived."

There's no Batten in ADM 104 that matches. Can't seem to find him on any sites with those initials, either. Perhaps a typo or two in the Air 81 transcript on the NA website, bearing in mind it has the wrong date too?


BEETZ, Wilhelm - GAF.
BRUETZAM, Karl-Guenther - GAF. [Brützam]
JANESCHITZ, Franz-Friedrich - GAF.
JECKSTADT, Helmut Herbert - GAF.
STYRA, Heinz - GAF.

He-111P-4 W/Nr. 3085 5J+GP of 6./KG4, hit a balloon cable over South Shields at 00.25 hours, lost a wing and crashed at Beach Road.

https://aircrewremembered.com/Kracke...rch_type=exact

Regards

Simon

[davew]

Alex

Burley and Caird were in Master N8043 (ABS and Wreck Recovery in Britain).

Master N2043 went to SAAF in July 1941 from 9 BGS.

DaveW

[Ross_McNeill]

Nevett crashed on 10th in the Magister, both he and Batten injured. On 16th Nevett died from injuries sustained in the crash.

Ross

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

KENYA.
VAN der SPUY, Sybrandt Johannes -F/Sgt - 47242 - SAAF.

The only casualties suffered by No. 12 Squadron, S.A.A.F., in Somaliland were due to an accident at Garissa. A machine-gunner cleaning his weapons with petrol set the tray alight. Running to the door of the grass hut he threw the blazing contents over Flight-Sergeant Van der Spuy. In his book, Theirs is the Glory*, Stuart McCreath described how the burning man fell among the huts, setting fire to them in a blaze that destroyed the armoury and all but destroyed the ammunition dump. Four gunners were badly burnt and Flight-Sergeant Van der Spuy died of his injuries.

*
Theirs is the Glory: The Story of No. 12 Squadron S.A.A.F.
McCreath, Stuart N.
Johannesburg:Widdicombe & Ogden, n.d.
p.16.

See:
A Gathering of Eagles - The Campaigns of the South African Air Force in Italian East Africa June 1940-November 1941.
Brown, James Ambrose.
Cape Town:Purnell,1970.
pp.162-3, 320 & 339.

Col.