430422 - Unaccounted airmen - 22-4-1943

**Henk Welting** · 30th April 2010, 16:36

What were the places of death registration for:

A - Killed on active service:
F/O (Fl.Instr.) John H. BARNES - 120407 (from N.Ireland).

B - Died on active service:
AC1 Arnold DALE - 1537224 - age37;
AC2 Edward DENSHAM - 1831265 - age 37;
AC1 Frank KELLER - 1509894 - 914 (Balloon) Sqn (Wythall, Birmingham), and
Cpl Kenneth R. WHITTAKER - 1084022.

C - Not found in Flight Global:
Cpl George A. BOLLAND - 958487 - 167 Sqn (Ludham, Norfolk).

D - Miscellaneous:
Looking for GRO-listing of:
F/Lt Donald N. GALLAI-HATCHARD - 115639 - (?) PRU - KOAS - buried Medjez-el-Bab War Cem., Tunisia, and
F/Lt Gilbert A. HOUGHTON - 81172 - DOAS - buried Bône War Cem., Algeria.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

**AlanW** · 30th April 2010, 16:44

Henk,
GRO only gives PRU as unit for Hatchard.
Houghton, 1 PDC.

**Henk Welting** · 30th April 2010, 17:23

Thanks Alan.

Forgot to add a proposed aircraft loss for this day in my first message:
Oxford I - BG208 - 14 (P)AFU - flew into ground at night 2 miles W of Ossington (already as a casualty on this a/c: Sgt [Pilot] Henry F. PUDER - RCAF R/81378).

Regards,
Henk.

**Dick** · 30th April 2010, 17:47

Hi Henk
Barnes,25, registered at Southwell, Nottinghamshire.This is the same place as Puder and may put Barnes on Oxford BG208
Dale,37, registered at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
Densham,37, registered at Newark, Nottinghamshire
Keller,36,registered at Birmingham
Whittaker,32, registered at Stafford, Staffordshire
Bolland, 21, registered at Northallerton,N Yorkshire
Regards
Dick

**Henk Welting** · 30th April 2010, 18:04

As ever, thanks Dick for your prompt and excellent help.
Regards,
Henk.

**dennis_burke** · 13th May 2010, 16:53

Found Bolland just in the corner of my eye in Flight, DOAS scanned as Cpl. G\ A. Boltsrld;

**Leendert** · 14th May 2010, 17:49

Henk,

F/Lt Gallai-Hatchard was in the RAF Film Unit and following story says he was killed during air operations in Tunisia: http://www.thewarillustrated.info/164/movie-cameramen-in-the-front-line-of-battle.asp.
No further detail about his death however.

Groet,

Leendert

**dennis_burke** · 15th May 2010, 16:51

Gallai-Hatchard is listed Killed in Action, Not KOAS in Flight. I wonder if he might have been on an American Aircraft perhaps. Or maybe some ground assignment.

He is listed KIA with only one other person in Flight Casualty list, F/Sgt D B Elliot of 55 Sqn who is listed dead 25th April 1943. Unconnected I'd suppose.