420219 - Unaccounted airmen - 19-2-1942

**Henk Welting** · 18th April 2009, 15:55

What were the places of death registration for:

A - Died on active service:
Cpl Leslie GILL - 962247.

B - Not found Flight archives:
AC1 Lawrence F. LONG - 1286084;
AC2 Ernest PROCTOR - 1510325, and
Sgt John STARKEY - 350652 - age 40.

Proposed aircraft loss:
Tutor I - K4823 - 1 FIS - flew into ground near Offchurch, Leamington, Warwickshire.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

**Dick** · 18th April 2009, 16:15

Hi Henk
Gill, 26, registered at Blackpool, Lancashire
Long,34, registered at Colchester, Essex
Proctor and Starkey didn't come up on the register
Regards
Dick

**dennis_burke** · 18th April 2009, 19:57

I don't seem to find Starkey Scotland either. Perhaps northern Ireland, if we had access to registers.

Correction, Ernest Proctor age 31 is in Blackpool district for Q1, same as Cpl. Gill but they are not in the same Fligth Casualty listing.

**Henk Welting** · 19th April 2009, 10:41

D&D, here we say "Dank je wel" (Thanks).
Regards,
Henk.

**graeme clarke** · 17th November 2011, 16:11

Re Starkey

I have this on him

John STARKEY
Sergeant 350652
Royal Air Force
Died in England on Thursday 19 February 1942

John was born in Walsall, the son of John and Mary Starkey.
He was married to Violet Boonham at Walsall in 1937 and resided in the Shelfield area.
John died at 40 years of age and was cremated at Birmingham (Perry Barr) Crematorium.

Whilst the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records his date of death as 1942, the death register in Ancestry states that it was 1943.

regards,

Graeme

**Henk Welting** · 19th November 2011, 15:50

Thanks Graeme; will amend my files.
Regards,
Henk.

**Martyn A Critchlow** · 20th January 2015, 17:07

Cpl Leslie GILL - 962247 - died in Blackpool, after a short illness
(Nottingham Evening Post, 21 & 23 February 1942)

Martyn

**wwrsimon** · 5th October 2017, 12:45

Hello

AC2 Ernest PROCTOR - 1510325 - the Burnley Express of February 25th 1942 reported the following:

R.A.F. Man's Suicide
"Suicide, there being no evidence of the state of the mind at the time," was the verdict at a Blackpool inquest, last Friday, on Ernest Proctor (31), of Towneley Street, Burnley, who was found with his throat cut in the bathroom of a house in Exchange Street, Blackpool, on Thursday afternoon.
Phyllis Proctor said her husband had been run-down since he joined the forces. She saw him last on Sunday, when he visited home.

Regards

Simon

**jonheyworth** · 26th February 2022, 14:03

Leslie Gill 9622247 , attached to Number 3 SOTT , was admitted seriously ill to the Blackpool Infectious Diseases Sanatorium on 17 February , where he died of cerebro spinal meningitis