410226 - Unaccounted Airmen - 26-02-1941

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

410226 - Unaccounted Airmen - 26-02-1941

From Henk's List -

AINSLIE, Tom Dale - Sgt - 967756 - RAFVR - 75 Sqdn.
Edinburgh (Warriston) Crematorium, Edinburgh.
Died of injuries sustained in a road traffic accident near Cambridge.

BLEDGE, Hugh Aitken Galloway - AC2c - 1024054 - RAFVR.
Girvan (Doune) Cemetery, Ayrshire.
Died in RAF Hospital St. Athan of a coronary thrombosis caused by heart disease.

DEACON, Kenneth George - Sgt - 906493 - RAFVR - 16 OTU.
Bristol (Arnos Vale) Cemetery, Gloucestershire.
Walked into a rotating propellor.

HOLMES, Leonard Henry - AC1c - 865135 - RAF (AAF) - 934 Balloon Sqdn.
Plymouth (Efford) Cemetery, Devon.
He was admitted dangerously ill to the RN Hospital Plymouth on 29 November 1940 dying of a sub chronic abscess.

MEGAW, Eric Jack Kennedy - Sqdn/Ldr - 28049 - RAF - 8 AACU.

Middlezoy (Holy Cross) Churchyard, Somerset.

Killed in an enemy air raid, 8 Anti Ai Co-operation Unit.

See - AIR 81/5289.



NEWTON, Bertram - W/O - 335390 - RAF - 5 SFTS.

Hawarden (St.Deiniol ) Churchyard, Flintshire.

Admitted seriously ill to RAF Hospital Wilmslow on 19 December becoming dangerously ill on 22 December dying of cereberal compression.


From CWGC -

UK
BURROW, Archibald Raymond - Sgt - 759248 - RAFVR.
Hartley Wintney (St.Mary) Old Churchyard, Hampshire.
JEFFERY, Peter William - P/O - 86407 - RAFVR.
Lound (St John the Baptist) Churchyard, Suffolk.
SPENCER, Eric Albert Victor - Sgt - 581537 - RAF.
Chesham Bois Burial Ground, Buckinghamshire
These three airmen were crew of Blenheim IV - N3571 - 2 SoAC.
See AIR 8155262.

HOLMWOOD, Raymond Arthur - Wng/Cdr - 1086 - RAAF.
Whyteleafe (St.Luke) Churchyard, Surrey.
Hurricane Ii - Z2755 - 615 Sqdn.
See AIR 81/5276.

TRENCH, Desmond Ernest Crosbie - F/Lt - 37456 - RAF.
Severance Forest (St.Katharine) Churchyard, Wiltshire.
Oxford - R6107 - 2 CFS.

STAFFORD - CLARK, John - S/Lt(A) - HMS Heron - RNVR.
Yeovilton (St Bartholomew) Churchyard, Somerset.
Master - N7776 - 760 Sqdn FAA,RN.

COLE, Kenneth James - S/Lt(A) - HMS Daedalus - RNVR.
DAVID, Evan - S/Lt(A) - HMS Daedalus RN.
These two Naval Airmen are Commemorated on the Lee-On-Solent Memorial, Hampshire.
They were crew of Swordfish I - N2776 - 812 Sqdn FAA,RN.

Alex

[Andy Marden]

HOLMWOOD, Raymond Arthur - Wng/Cdr - 1086 - RAAF.
Whyteleafe (St.Luke) Churchyard, Surrey.
Hurricane Ii - Z2755 - 615 Sqdn.
See AIR 81/5276.

Alex,
This was Z2354: https://discovery.nationalarchives.g...ls/r/C16689374
Z2755 was lost the same day with 56 Sqn: https://discovery.nationalarchives.g...ls/r/C16689368
Note that his name is spelt incorrectly in the AIR81 file description.
Andy

[Andy Marden]

COLE, Kenneth James - S/Lt(A) - HMS Daedalus - RNVR.
DAVID, Evan - S/Lt(A) - HMS Daedalus RN.
These two Naval Airmen are Commemorated on the Lee-On-Solent Memorial, Hampshire.
They were crew of Swordfish I - N2776 - 812 Sqdn FAA,RN.

Alex

This was L2776.