410510 - Unaccounted Airmen - 10-05-1941

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

410510 - Unaccounted Airmen - 10-05-1941

From Henk's List -

UK
BEDDOE, Leonard - AC2c - 1401307 - RAFVR.
Blackpool (Carleton) Cemetery, Lancashire.
Motorcycle Accident. Sustained fatal injuries when the motorcycle he was riding was in collision with a lorry at the junction of Bolton Street and Crystal Road, Blackpool, on Saturday evening.
See: AIR 81/6364

HAY, Ernest Bertram - AC1c - 960805 - RAF.
Willesden New Cemetery, Middlesex.
Believed to have been killed through war operations on 11 May 1941 and whose dead body was found on 14 May.
See: AIR 81/6364.

STOATE, William Henry - AC2c - 1021273 - RAFVR.
Bradford (Undercliffe) Cemetery, Yorkshire.
Enemy Air Raid. High explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped at a North East town early on Saturday, but damage was slight and casualties, with one exception, were not serious. Fifteen people were treated for injuries caused by flying glass. Three others, including a woman of 86, were admitted to hospital, but the condition of only one - Wiiliam A. Stoate, a young Bradford man - was serious.
See:AIR 81/6364.


AIR 81/6364.
Multiple casualties:enemy bombing raids; Chaucer School,Tabard Street,London, 10 and 11 May 1941. C16755662


CAREN, Henry Victor - Lac - 535880 - RAF - 913 Balloon Sqdn.
Halesworth New Cemetery, Suffolk..
Died in Motorcycle Accident. Leading Aircraftman Henry Victor Caren, aged 24, and A/C Francis John Thomas, aged 22, who died from injuries received when a motor-cycle on whichthey were travelling in Stratford Road, Hockley Heath, collided head-on with a motor-van. The van turned over and the motor-cycle burst into flames.

DEVINE, William John - AC2c - 1342316 - RAFVR - 10 Ballon Ctr.
Glasgow (St.Kentigern's) Roman Catholic Cemetery, Glasgow.
He was fatally injured in an air raid at Analby Road Hull.

FARMER, George Robert - AC1c - 1181238 - RAFVR - 11 OTU.
Tetbury (St.Saviour) Churchyard, Gloucestershire.
He was admitted seriously ill to Tetbury District hospital on 24 April suffering with pyrexia. Transferred to RAF hospital Innsworth on 2 May he died at 07:50 Hours of pulmonary tuberculosis.

GROOM, Thomas Joseph - AC2c - 1293047 - RAF - RAF Portreath.
Islington Cemetery and Crematorium, Middlesex.
Killed in an enemy air raid at RAF Portreath.
See:AIR 81/6356.

HOWELL, Alfred - AC1c - 846935 - RAF (AAF).
Upminster Cemetery, Essex.
Post Discharge Death. Likely Medical /Natural Causes. Requires Death Certificate for Confirmation.

JEFFRIES, James Farrar - Sgt - 759325 - RAFVR - 144 Sqdn.
Exeter Higher Cemetery, Devon.
Post Discharge Death. Likely Medical /Natural Causes. Requires Death Certificate for Confirmation (via Jon Heyworth).

LOCHNER, Conrad Bertie - Sqdn/Ldr - 75431 - RAFVR - MC.
Torquay Cemetery and Extension, Devon.
He was admitted seriously ill to the RAF Officer's Hospital Torquay on 5 May dying of diatonis nasal columella abscesses and Pyaemia.

LYON, Arthur - AC2c - 1290932 - RAFVR.
Acton Cemetery, Middlesex.
Lyon admitted to a series of thefts in London and to being a deserter from the RAF and that he was ordered to be detained and then handed over to the Metropolitan Police. He was killed along with more than a dozen other prisoners at Pentonville Prison in Islington on May 10, 1941.

NECK, Arthur Winsor - AC2c - 1202697 - RAFVR.
Croydon (Mitcham Road) Crematorium, Surrey.
He was killed at Lambeth as rhe result of enemy action.

PRIOR, Eric Arthur - F/Sgt - 512490 - RAF.
Worcester (Astwood) Cemetery, Worcestershire.
He was injured in a motor car accident in Worcester and admitted to the Worcester Royal Infirmary where he died the same day.

TILLEN, Donald Robert - Sgt - 745090 - RAFVR.
Basingstoke (Worting Road) Cemetery, Hampshire.
Beaufort I - N1017 - 42 Sqdn.
See: AIR 81/6350.

WEDDLE, George - Cpl - 808250 - RAF (AAF) - 21 OTU.
Billingham (St.Cuthbert) Churchyard, Durham.
He died in RAF Hospital Innsworth due to war operations.

GILLARD, Thomas Leslie - LA Fitter( E) - SFx.65 - HMS Daedalus - RN.
Camberwell (Honor Oak) Crematorium, London.
Died of Wounds. Caused by ?

From CWGC -

EGYPT
HALE, Alfred Thomas Bruce (Tasmania) - Sgt - 4708 - RAAF.
Alexandria (Chatby)Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.
Blenheim IV - V5514 - 55 Sqdn.
See: AIR 81/6446.

UK
SMEATON, Bruce William - Sgt(Pilot) - 1160948 - RAFVR.
Kirkby Wharfe ( St.John the Baptist) Churchyard Extension, Yorkshire.
Blenheim I - L1494 - 54 OTU.
See: AIR 81/6343.

ORTMANN, Erwin - GAF.
Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery, Staffordshire.
Cause of death ?

Alex

[wwrsimon]

Alex

JEFFRIES, James Farrar - Sgt - 759325 - the inquest into his death was reported in the Western Morning News of May 14th 1941. It records that he waskilled in a motor accident while driving home on leave to his parents' house.

He was found pinned underneath his overturned car at Prickley Pear Cross, Ottery St. Mary on the Exmouth-Honiton road by a passer-by and his wife, who managed to free him but he died a few seconds afterwards. A policeman told the inquest that tyre marks on the road suggested a puncture on the nearside rear tyre caused the car to strike a hedge on the opposite side of a right hand bend and rebound across the road and overturn. Death was due to a fractured skull, and a verdict of "Accidental death " was recorded.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Jefferies 759325 was a road accident. I think you've read down from Howell 846935 , who I've now made an entry for

[Andy Marden]

ORTMANN, Edwin- GAF.
Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery, Staffordshire.
Cause of death ?

Crew of He111P-2 1389 1G+GR of 7./KG27, shot down by a Beaufighter of 29 Sqn on the night of 10/11 May:
https://aircrewremembered.com/Kracke...N&qand=Langner
The rest of the crew are presumably recorded on the next day.

[Andy Marden]

Forgot to add, Ortmann's first name was Erwin.

[Alex Smart]

Thank you both for the detailed information.
I have corrected ORTMANN's Christian name .