430131 - Unaccounted airwoman and airmen - 31-1-1943

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration for:

A - Died on active service:
Cpl Richard ROBERTS - 1524115 - age 33, and
Cpl Edmund W. WHEELER - 933363 - age 29.

B - Not found in Flight archives:
G/Cpt Frederick G. SHERIFF - OBE - MC (probably died in RAF Hospital Cosford).

C - Looking ONLY for the place of death registration of ACW1 Marguerite B. BURGGE - 2014522, based at Tangmere; I've all info on the sad unnatural death of this lady.

D - Furthermore looking for GRO-listing of:
F/Lt Harold W. AVES - 63999 - buried Bône War Cem., Algeria, who died of wounds or injuries received on active service, and
F/Sgt Frederick M. PAGE - 974033 - buried Nassau War Cem., Bahamas, who died on active service.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[AlanW]

Henk,
Aves.......8011 AMES.
Page....111OTU.

Nothing on Burge (note spelling from CWGC) in GRO

[malcolm_raf]

Hi Henk

Wheeler - Surrey Mid East
Roberts - Wenlock (RAF Hospital, Cosford?)
Sherriff - Wenlock

All the best

Malcolm

[dennis_burke]

Shieriff is DOAS in April 15th magazine

Burge's death registration is in Chichester, Sussex

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Marguerite Burge,22,as Dennis says is registered at Chichester in the 2nd Qtr of 1943.If you have her death as unnatural then the delay probably springs from a Coroner's or Police investigation,perhaps both
Regards
Dick

[davew]

Henk

Burge registered at Chichester in the 2nd quarter of 1943.

DaveW

[wwrsimon]

Hello

Cpl Edmund W. WHEELER - 933363 - the Croydon Roll of Honour memorial book on ancestry.co.uk has the following:

WHEELER, EDMUND WILSON, Cpl., R.A.F.
b. Selhurst, 28 Aug., '13.
Res. 18, Brading Rd.
Educ. Tavistock Sch. Capt. of football and Sec. of Social Section, Croydon Adult School
Ser. 2 1/2 yrs.
D. Horton Hosp, Epsom, from natural causes, 31 Jan., '43.

G/Cpt Frederick G. SHERRIFF - the National Probate Calendar confirms that he died at Cosford.

ACW1 Marguerite B. BURGE - 2014522 - her death was widely reported in the press at the time. For the record, she was found with severe head injuries and stab wounds in a hedge near Goodwood, and died soon afterwards in hospital in Chichester. On July 10th 1943, Charles Arthur Raymond, a French-Canadian soldier, was executed at Wandsworth Prison for her murder.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

UPGRADE to Joseph Louis Paul Boutin R 143769, a Pilot S attached to Number 8 SFTS, he died in Moncton of sub acute bacterial endocarditis following rheumatic fever

[jonheyworth]

UPGRADE to David Leslie Thompson Wilson J 13633, a Pilot attached to 31 OTU at RCAF Debert, he died in the Camp Hill hospital, Halifax of lymphatic leukaemia

[jonheyworth]

Richard Rec Roberts 1524115 , died in RAF Hospital Cosford of pneumonia