421214 - Unaccounted airmen - 14-12-1942

[JimCorbett1977]

Hi Dennis,

Regarding Hartley and Strudwick, I have checked my records for crashes in that area on that date but I have nothing listed. Northumberland South includes Newcastle and the area was subject to much enemy activity during the 14th and 15th December 1942 so they may have been killed in an air raid.

I am still checking my records for crashes in the days prior to 14th, on the off chance they were injured and died in one of the local hospitals. I will post an update.

[dennis_burke]

On the same pages of the register as Hartley, and Assuming Strudwick is on the end of the previous page??

Two special constables and a 17 year old Home Guard Man.

All three in - WHITLEY AND MONKSEATON, URBAN DISTRICT

Special Constable. Husband of Dorothy A. Gilbert, of 9 Ashfield Grove, Whitley Bay. Died at Park Avenue, Whitley Bay.

Special Constable; of 44 Links Avenue, Whitley Bay. Son of Charles Hudson, of 157 Philip Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; husband of Dorothy Hudson. Outside Whitley Bay Post Office.

Home Guard; of 21 Coquet Avenue, Whitley Bay. Son of Thomas B. and Daisy V. Roche. Died at 21 Coquet Avenue.

if that helps.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

Charles Gilbert is listed on a family tree on ancestry.co.uk, which includes the following:

SC Charles Gilbert Died 14 December 1942, aged 41 Special Constable Gilbert together with SC [Oliver] Hudson were attending a police lecture at Whitley Bay, when an enemy air raid began; they immediately went out on duty and had reached their posts.

The National Probate Calendar entries for both Gilbert and Hudson record that each was 'believed to have died through war operations on December 14 at Park Avenue, Whitley Bay, and whose dead body was found on 14 December 1942.'

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Thomas Slater 858845 , was admitted dangerously ill to the 29th Combined hospital, where he died of a combination of malaria, smallpox and pyrexia

[jonheyworth]

Thomas Newton 411120 , attached to Number 27 WU, died in RAF Hospital Habbaniya of pneumonia and meningitis

[jonheyworth]

Edwin John Charles Hatchard 87565 C/O of the Advanced Salvage Unit Western desert and the Unit M/O Captain Peter, took off from Agedabia in the unit communication aircraft for the B party location at Benina when they crashed at Benghazi killing Hatchard and seriously injuring Peter. I have not have discovered the type or serial of the aircraft involved

[jonheyworth]

Charles Edward Hugh Strudwick 847118 and

Bernard Ashton Hartley 901037 ,

Both attached to RAF Heaton Park , were both killed in an air raid in Whitley Bay

[jonheyworth]

Frederick Ellis 1670140 | attached to Number 2 SoTT | was admitted seriously ill to Wharncliffe EMS hospital Sheffield on 29 November, becoming dangerously ill on 6 December, dying of pneumonia