420202 - Unaccounted airmen - 2-2-1942

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration for:

A - Died on active service:
AC1 George A. BUTLIN - 1297442 - age 36;
Sgt William E. ELLIOTT - 919864 - age 46, and
Cpl Norman A. SAUNDERS - 909012.

B - Not found Flight archives:
LAC James HOWLETT - 1353951 - attd 802 Sqn FAA (any connection to Sub.Lt Trevor HOPKINS - RN [HMS Condor] who died same day ?);
AC2 Frederick U.C. JONES - 118 Sqn (Ibsley, Hampshire), and
AC2 Stephen W. JOYCE - 1302852.

No proposed aircraft losses for this day.
Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Butlin,36, registered at Westminster, Central London
Elliott,46, registered at Bridgenorth, Shropshire
Saunders, 23, registered at Lichfield, Staffordshire
Howlett, 51, registered at Uxbridge, Middlesex no connection to -
Hopkins,25, registered at Cardiff S Wales
Jones,21, registered at Christchurch, Hampshire
Joyce,21, registered at Wrexham, Denbighshire, N Wales
Regards
Dick

[Henk Welting]

A 100% score; thanks Dick.
Regards,
Henk.

[dennis_burke]

J Howlett DOAS in March 12 1942 magazine, Scanned as L.A/C.
J. Hewlett- but is deffinatly a letter o in the original printed copy.

Could not find Jones or Joyce in flight archives.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

Cpl Norman A. SAUNDERS - 909012 - the Staffordshire Advertiser of February 14th 1942 reported the following:

AIRMAN'S FATAL INJURIES
An Air Force policeman's death through being knocked down by a motor-lorry as he was travelling from a weekend visit to his wife to whom he was newly married was described at an inquest at the Burtonwood Emergency Hospital on Friday. The deceased was Norman Alfred Saunders, and it was stated that he was walking alongside the footpath on the nearside of the Burton to Lichfield Road. A lorry driven by Thomas Lawrence, of Barnsley, collided with the rear of an Air Force lorry and then ran on to the footpath to knock the deceased down. He died the same day.

AC2 Frederick Uriah Cook JONES - Service Nº 1029526 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at Fordingbridge, Ringwood Road, Fordingbridge, Hants.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Eric Fogg 1160901 , attached to 510 AMES , was accidently electrocuted

[jonheyworth]

Stephen WILLIAM Joyce 1302852, a medically discharged airman, died of acute myeloid leukaemia

[jonheyworth]

James Howlett 1353951 , attached to 802 Defence Squadron, died in Harefield EMS hospital of carcinoma of the lung with his wife, Mrs. R Hewlett, of Elgin Mews, Ladbroke Grove, at his bedside

[jonheyworth]

George Alfred Butlin 1297442 | attached to the A&AEE | died in the Westminster Hospital, St. John’s Gardens, London SW1 of Hodgkin’s disease

[jonheyworth]

William Eric Elliott 919864 | attached to RAF Penrhos | was admitted to the station hospital at RAF Bridgenorth on 20 January. He became seriously Ill on 2 February, dying at 12:00 Hours of acute nephritis and a coronary thrombosis