411224 - Unaccounted airmen - 24-12-1941

[Dick]

Henk
You are right!about1st Qtr 42 but the thing is that from 24/12/ we are in the period that the UK celebrates as the Christmas Holiday and offices frequently shut. Depending on the day of the week the shutdown could last into the New Year hence it is necessary to look at the 1st Qtr of the next year as well as the 4th Qtr of the last.The registration of age as 0 is common for infants under 1 Yr old, my wife has recorded several in 20 years of Family History research, including a potential Uncle of mine had he lived beyond 11Months. A common record when the age is not Known is a simple - and this crops up with both still birth and Air Raid victims where the ID is incomplete beyond the Surname
Regards
Dick

[dennis_burke]

There is a 49 yr old Peter Cunningham registered in Paisley district of Renfrew in 1941, I think that solves that. I'm not going to check the mans death cert.

Ratclyffe and Callahgan are DOAS, in the same list as Cunningham, Calnon, Mulligan

[paulmcmillan]

All

re: Botha I - L6262 - 2 BGS - spun into ground Enfield Bridge, Leigh, Kent. on 24-12-41

This site suggests that this crash occured on 24-2-41 (I know 24-12-41 came from Air Britain Crash Log) ! with crew as

"All four crew were killed. Pilot P/O S G Rodd, Sgt G L Pitman (Nav), LAC P L Jackson, AC1 H Davenport. Aircraft completely wrecked and burnt out, all bodies unidentifiable."


http://www.kenthistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=10770.0;wap2

Thius makes it

Name: RODD, SIDNEY GUY
Initials: S G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Pilot Officer (Pilot)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Age: 37
Date of Death: 24/02/1941
Service No: 85646
Additional information: Son of Sidney and Larhini Rodd, of Chelmsford.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Name: PITMAN, GEOFFREY LEO
Initials: G L
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death: 24/02/1941
Service No: 742144
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot C.C.1. Grave 28.
Cemetery: MAIDSTONE CEMETERY, Kent

Name: JACKSON, PHILLIP LESLIE
Initials: P L
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Age: 20
Date of Death: 24/02/1941
Service No: 948099
Additional information: Son of James Thomas Jackson and Phyllis Jackson, of Selly Oak, Birmingham.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot 20D. Grave 14.
Cemetery: BIRMINGHAM (LODGE HILL) CEMETERY

Name: DAVENPORT, HAROLD
Initials: H
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Aircraftman 1st Class
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force
Date of Death: 24/02/1941
Service No: 980614
Additional information: Son of John and Margaret Davenport, of Spring View, Wigan, Lancashire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot C.C.1. Grave 31.
Cemetery: MAIDSTONE CEMETERY, Kent


All Deaths registered Q1 1941

Pitman Geoffrey L 22 Sevenoaks 2a 2695A
Rodd Sidney G 39 Sevenoaks 2a 2696
Jackson Philip L 20 Sevenoaks 2a 2695
Davenport Harold 20 Sevenoaks 2a 2695

[davew]

Hello Paul,

I will pass the details on to Jim Halley.

DaveW

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Paul; four names "off the list".
Regards,
Henk.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

AC2 Robert A.D. CALLAGHAN - 1401603 and
AC2 John H. CALNON - 1441351 - the Birmingham Mail of December 27th 1941 reported:

Two aircraft hands were killed when they were walking along the London Road between Stretton and and the Blue Board and they were knocked down by a car. They were Robert Archie Dennis Callaghan (aged 18), of Southampton, who was killed instantly, and John Henry Calnon (aged 19), of Holborn, who died in the Rugby Hospital.

LAC Eric S. HAILES - 1202572 - the Nottingham Journal of Janaury 3rd 1941 reported the following:

Airman's Death at Sneinton Dale
An airman's death while home on Christmas leave was the subject of a Nottingham inquest yesterday, when the Ciry Coroner (Mr. W. S. Rothera) recorded that Aircraftman Eric Stanley Hailes (28) , of 52, Rossington Road, Sneinton Dale, Nottingham, died from the causes given in the medical evidence: cardiac failure with cranial haemorrhage and acute alcoholism.

AC1 Vincent J. MULLIGAN - 1309661 - the National Probate Calendar has James Vincent Mulligan, of 4 Carnlough Road, Cabra West Dublin, died 24 December 1941 at The Packway, Larkhill, Wilts.

AC1 Raymond ROBERTS - 1121239 - the Manchester Evening News of December 27th 1941 reported the following:

ROBERTS, on the 24th inst. in a military hospital, A.C.1. RAYMOND ROBERTS, the dearly-loved youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Roberts, of 20, Leicester Avenue, Timperley.

After a little digging, I came across this, from the Daily Record, January 28th 1942:

Motors Crash in Black-Out
After a proof lasting several hours in Inverness Sherrifs Court yesterday, Tainsh Aird, motor mechanic, Oakbank, Lentran, Inverness-shire, was fined £10 and his driving licence endorsed on being found guilty of driving a motor-car recklessly and in a manner dangerous to the public.
Evidence was given that a party of airmen were paraded on a public road in he black-out when Aird's car ran into them. Seven men were injured, and one, Rayond Roberts, died.
Mr. John MacBean, solicitor, agent for Aird, said there had been appalling negligence when a party of airmen were paraded on a public road without lights to warn traffic of their presence.
Sherriff P. J. Grant said he took into consideration that possibly other people were at fault.

So, from those two articles, the Statutory Deaths Register on the Scotland's People website records that Roberts died at 8.45 a.m at Ragmore Hospital, Inverness, due to heart failure resulting from injuries resulting from being knocked down by a car.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

John Corlett 611514 ,

Kevin Leo Henry 974410 and

Arthur Edward Samuel Murray 539514

All attached to RAF HQ ME , were all killed in an air raid on Gambut at 17:00 Hourz

[Alex Smart]

In regards to P/O. Isaac PAUL, 102610, Killed on 24/12/1941.
He is recorded as being with 107 Sqn.

BLME vol 1 has Z7848 lost on this date but with crew CROSSLEY, HEWSON and LUKE.
Also,
Henk's file T-Z has the CROSSLEY crew with Z7848.

This forum's Database has Z9677 as their aircraft.


107 Sqn's ORB has the a/c lost with PAUL as being piloted by P/O. MOCKRIDGE.

Henk has in his T-Z file -
Pilot: P/O. MOCKRIDGE - Safe.
Observer: P/O. PAUL - Killed.
WAG: F/O. J, ENSEL - Safe.
Their a/c serial - Z9677.

Alex

[Jagan]

Thanks Alex. Based on this thread http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/sho...=6431#post6431 paul's aircraft is not known

[jonheyworth]

Frank Levett 1072900 , attached to 140 Squadron , was admitted seriously ill to the City Hospital, Oxford on 23 December. Transferred to the Radcliffe Infirmary , he died there of cerebro spinal meningitis