421019 - Unaccounted airwoman and airmen - 19-10-1942

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration for:

A - Died on active service:
ACW2 Grace CADDICK - 450565 (pres. posted Stradishall, Suffolk).

B - Killed on active service:
LAC James B. GARNER - 984953.

C - Not found in Flight archives:
AC1 Oliver CURTIS - 863404 - age 52, and
F/Lt (Pilot/Instr.) Basil J.A. RENNIE - MC - 87414 (from S.Africa) - pres. posted with a Hampden unit (144 Sqn ?) and buried Cottesmore (St.Nicholas) Churchyard Extension, Rutland.

D - Also looking for the unit and possible cause of death of:
Sgt Roger NICHOLSON - 1152581 - buried Cambridge City Cemetery (there is a Sgt R. Nicholson listed as 'missing believed killed in action' in Casualty Communiqé 176, Flight 26-11-1942, pp.593).

E - Proposed aircraft losses:
Beaufighter II.F - R2437 - 54 OTU - crashed in forced landing near Duns, Berwickshire.
Hurricane I - W9135 - 59 OTU - crashed in forced landing 1 mile W of Northam, Northumberland.
Hurricane I - V6606 - 288 Sqn - engine caught fire after take-off for AA co-op flight; abandoned near Bottesford.
Master I - T8382 - 7 AACU - broke up in air over Aldershot, Hampshire.
Gipsy Moth - AW160 - 4 AOS - crashed on landing West Freugh.
Spitfire V.B - AR454 - 164 Sqn - crashed on landing Peterhead.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Grace Caddick,19,registered at Newmarket, Suffolk.The list for Newmarket includes Stradishall
Garner,24, registered at Surrey S W
Curtis,52, registered at Portsmouth, Hampshire
Rennie,30, registered at Sleaford and W Kesteven. Chorley has him in the Roll of Honour as being with 14 OTU but there doesn't seem to be a corresponding a/c loss in Vol 3(1942) or Vol 7 (OTU)
On CWGC there is a Roger Edwin Nicholson, no age, on 19/10/42,buried in Cambridgeshire and I found a registration for a Roger E Nicholson,22, at Wenlock, Shropshire. ? Cosford Hospital
Regards
Dick

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Dick.
Regards and enjoy the weekend.
Henk.

[Henk Welting]

Found a F/Lt B.J.A. RENNIE - MC, in Flight 28-1-1943 (Communiqué No. 193) as DOAS.

Henk.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

AC1 Oliver CURTIS - 863404 - the Hampshire Telegraph of October 30th 1942 reported the following:

DEATH OF MR. O. CURTIS
mr. Oliver Curtis, of 21, Elms Road, Fareham, aged 52 years, died after a short illness at the Royal Portsmouth Annex and was buried at the Fareham Cemetery yesterday week....Mr. Curtis was an ex-R.A.F. and R.E., and a member of the C.R.A.F.A.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

George Slater Charleson 1069897, attached to 101 MU, drowned, on leave, whilst bathing at Stanley Bay, Alexandria, his remains being transferred to Number 64 general hospital

[jonheyworth]

UPGRADE to George Keith Preston C 4792 , attached to the general list as a pilot, he died in RCAF station hospital, Trenton of a pulmonary embolism and an appendicitial abscess following an appendectomy

[jonheyworth]

Grace Caddick 450565 , an ACH/GD attached to Bomber Command at RAF Stradishall, was seriously injured in an accident on the Newmarket to Cambridge road at 18:20 hours dying in White Lodge hospital, Newmarket at 22:10 hours

[jonheyworth]

Frank Edward Flower 1204796 , attached to Number 63 RSU , was admitted seriously ill to Number 63 general hospital on 15 October, becoming dangerously ill the following day , dying of dystentry bacillary exudate

[jonheyworth]

Roger Edwin Nicholson 1152581 , attached to RAF Cosford, died at the station of a self inflicted gun shot wound