430110 - Unaccounted airmen - 10-1-1943

**Henk Welting** · 23rd February 2010, 15:07

What were the places of death registration for:

A - Died on active service:
AC1 Rennie C.E. BOAK - 847092;
Cpl Edward DODDS - 988176, and
Cpl Geoffrey C. JAMIESON - 1511798.

B - Not found in Flight archives:
AC2 James E. SHARROCKS - 1865333, and
LAC James WINTERBOTTOM - 1051297.

Proposed aircraft loss for this day:
Stirling III - BK660 - "Austins" - crashed on take-off Coventry Road, Elmdon, Birmingham.

Regards and thanks.
Henk.

**alclark** · 23rd February 2010, 15:19

UK Flight Testing Accidents recorded "Nil casualties" for BK660. The pilot was a Mr D. Cotton, the flight engineer and passenger were not named.

**Henk Welting** · 23rd February 2010, 15:31

Thanks Al; annotation made of pilot's name for Stirling BK660.
Regards,
Henk.

**COL BRUGGY** · 23rd February 2010, 15:38

Henk,

Newly-built Stirling BK660 was on a test flight from Elmdon, with the elevators locked externally it climbed away steeply, stalled and crashed just outside the aerodrome boundary, Test pilot D Cotton and Flight Engineer Mr F D Newman were both unhurt.

See: http://www.couplandbell.com/marg/crashes1943.htm

Incorrectly quotes date as 8-2-1943!

Col.

**malcolm_raf** · 23rd February 2010, 17:17

Hi Henk

AC1 Rennie C.E. BOAK - 847092 - Uxbridge
Cpl Edward DODDS - 988176 - Howden, East Yorkshire
Cpl Geoffrey C. JAMIESON - 1511798 - Bucklow, Cheshire
AC2 James E. SHARROCKS - 1865333 - Spilsby, Lincolnshire
LAC James WINTERBOTTOM - 1051297 - Preston, Lancashire

Malcolm

**Henk Welting** · 26th February 2010, 12:22

Thanks Col and Malcolm for info on BK660 and death registrations.
Regards,
Henk.

**dennis_burke** · 11th April 2012, 13:13

April 8th flight mag has Sharrocks as DOAS, name is spelled as "J E Shorrocks", foudn by searching for 'rrocks'

no sign of Winterbottom though in Flight magazine.

**Rich Allenby** · 12th February 2013, 19:35

Hi, an update for this date incase anyone ever picks up on Henk's original post for 10th January 1943.

Cpl Edward Dodds died as a result of being struck by a rotating propeller at Pocklington airfield and was killed instantly while attempting to cross the runway. Source: Mike Usherwood's "Pocklington War Diary" book, though he credits the casualty as Cpl DoBBs.

Rich

**wwrsimon** · 5th February 2018, 18:31

Hello

AC1 Rennie C.E. BOAK - 847092 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, Ruislip.

Regards

Simon

**jonheyworth** · 25th April 2023, 21:18

James Edward Sharrocks 1865333 | attached to Number 11 Recruit’s Centre | was admitted dangerously ill to SSQ at 19:00 Hours on 7 January, dying of bronchial pneumonia