410225 - Unaccounted Airmen - 25-02-1941

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

410225 - Unaccounted Airmen - 25-02-1941

From Henk's List -

UK

ROBERTS, Hugh Alan - AC1c - 620703 - RAF - 20 OTU.
Barnsley (Monk Bretton) Cemetery, Yorkshire.

WRIGHT, Charlie - AC1c - 909460 - RAFVR.
St.Ives Public Cemetery, Huntingdonshire.

POHNER, Benedikt - AC1c - 787010 - RAFVR - 310 (Czech) Sqdn.
ZAVADIL, Jaroslav - Lac - 787128 - RAFVR - 310 (Czech) Sqdn.
These two Czech Airmen rest at Whittlesford (SS.Mary and Andrew) Churchyard, Cambridgeshire.
They were both Killed in an Air Raid.
See - AIR81/5266.

From CWGC -

CANADA
BUTCHER, Joseph Goodwin - Sgt - R/59269 - RCAF.
Carman ( Greenwood) Cemetery, Manitoba, Canada.
HOWARTH, Harry Albert - Sgt - R/63614 - RCAF.
London (Mount Pleasant) Cemetery, Ontario, Canada.
These two Canadian Airmen were crew of Battle - 1675 - 1 ANS.

LANCASTER, Lloyd Ross - Lac - R/52101 - RCAF.
Rodney (McLean) Cemetery, Ontario, Canada.
PREST, William Henry - Sgt - R/64134 - RCAF.
Niagara Falls (St John's) Cemetery, Ontario, Canada.
These two Canadian Airmen were crew of Anson - 6250 - 1 ANS.

USA
SMITH, Bennett Jay (American) - Sgt - R/66197 - RCAF.
Mount Pleasant (Riverside) Cemetery, Michael, USA.
Yale - 3382 - 1 SFTS.

UK
ATKINSON, Robert Johnson - AC2c - 1213421 - RAFVR.
Bradford (Bowling) Cemetery, Yorkshire.

HOLDSTOCK, Frederick Benjamin - AC2c - 1223122 - RAFVR.
Luton General Cemetery, Bedfordshire.

RIDDLESWORTH, Allen Fairhurst - F/Lt - 39567 - RAF.
Southport (Duke Street) Cemetery, Lancashire.

ROECK, Leo Frank - Sgt - 905830 - RAFVR.
SHIRTCLIFF, William John - P/O - 400032 - RAAF.
These two airmen rest at Bassingbourn Cum Kneesworth Cemetery, Cambridgeshire.

The above five airmen were crew of Wellington I - L4276 - 11 OTU
See - AIR 81/5254.

CHAMBERS, Joseph MacCrae - Sgt - 987191 - RAFVR.
Sutton Bridge (St.Matthew) Churchyard, Lincolnshire.
Hurricane I - N2460 - 56 OTU
See - AIR 81/5261.

HARPER, David Noel - P/O - 60533 - RAFVR.
Leverstock (St.Andrew) Churchyard, Wiltshire.
JEFFERIES, Frank Frederick - Sgt - 755857 - RAFVR.
Gloucester Old Cemetery, Gloucestershire.
These two airmen were crew of Lysander Ii - P9076 - 1 SoAC.
See AIR 81/5259.

MANSON, Timothy Roderick - F/Lt - 33121 - RAF.
Gorton (St.Bartholomew) Churchyard, Suffolk.
Magister I - L5951 - 17 OTU.
See AIR 81/5253.

SCHMIDT, Paul - GAF.
Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery, Staffordshire.
Cause of death ?

Alex

[davew]

Alex

Lysander P9076 should read P9072 as per database and ABS. P9076 was not written off until 1944.

see https://www.rafcommands.com/forum/ar...hp/t-2439.html.

DaveW

[Alex Smart]

ROBERTS, Hugh Alan - AC1c - 620703 - RAF - 20 OTU.
Barnsley (Monk Bretton) Cemetery, Yorkshire.

WRIGHT, Charlie - AC1c - 909460 - RAFVR.
St.Ives Public Cemetery, Huntingdonshire.

What of these two airmen ?

[jonheyworth]

ROBERTS, Hugh Alan - AC1c - 620703 - RAF - 20 OTU.
Barnsley (Monk Bretton) Cemetery, Yorkshire.

WRIGHT, Charlie - AC1c - 909460 - RAFVR.
St.Ives Public Cemetery, Huntingdonshire.

What of these two airmen ?

They are both accounted in the database

[Alex Smart]

So, now too late to edit the details into my initial post :(

ROBERTS, Hugh Alan - AC1c - 620703 - RAF - 20 OTU.
Barnsley (Monk Bretton) Cemetery, Yorkshire.
Cause of death -
While attached to 20 OTU, suffered severe burns to the face, hands, left leg and abdomen, when petrol covered clothing caught fire on 29 January.. admitted dangerously ill to Grey's hospital, Elgin, he died of pneumonia secondary to severe burns.

WRIGHT, Charlie - AC1c - 909460 - RAFVR.
St.Ives Public Cemetery, Huntingdonshire.
Cause of death -
A family tree on ancestry.co.uk records that he died of TB at Papworth Sanatorium.

Alex

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

From CWGC - UK

RIDDLESWORTH, Allen Fairhurst - F/Lt - 39567 - RAF.

Riddlesworth was the holder of a DFC.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/...4910/page/4675

ROECK, Leo Frank - Sgt - 905830 - RAFVR.

Actually, DE ROECK, Leo Frank - Sgt - RAFVR
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/fi...rank-de-roeck/

SHIRTCLIFF, William John - P/O - 400032 - RAAF

Actually, SHIRTCLIFFE, William John - P/O - AUS400032 - RAAF.
https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/vet...=1063307&c=WW2

Col.

[Alex Smart]

Thank you Col, especially for DE ROECK and the links that you have so kindly provided. I'm sure that other members will also appreciate your continued assistance.
Again, thank you.
Alex

[Andy Marden]

SCHMIDT, Paul - GAF.
Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery, Staffordshire.
Cause of death ?

Alex

This one has me stumped.
His headstone is shared with someone who died in 1945: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...schmidt#source

[wwrsimon]

Andy

Looking on the Kracker Archive on www.aircrewremembered.com the neareast match I can see is Lt. Helmut Schmidt, MIA on Ju-88 7A+AL of 3 (F)/121, lost on February 26th 1941.

No close matches using 'February 25, 1941' to search.

There is however a Paul Schmidt, aged 24, whose death was registered at Sudbury (on the Suffolk/Essex border) in the first quarter of 1941.

Regards

Simon

[vrajm]

Hi,

Do 17 Z-2 Werknummer 1134 of 4/KG2 coded 'U5+PM' was lost due to Hurricanes of 85th Sqdn. in the vicinity of Little Waldingfield, near Lavenham/Suffolk; last contact radio at 22h17 over Norwich-Catton.

Crew:
Flugzeugführer: Lt. Heinz-Eckart Patscheider
Beobachter: Ofw. Martin Mummer
Bordfunker: Uffz. Paul Schmidt
Bordfunker: Fw. August Beysiegel

https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/...Holzhammer.htm

All four of the crew baled out, but one member was killed when his parachute failed

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthoped...1134-479473039

Regards

Mojmir