430504 - Unaccounted airmen - 4-5-1943

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration for:

A - Died on active service:
AC1 Thomas F. AMIES - 1458072 - age 36;
Cpl Herbert L. CUNLIFFE - 1074069, and
AC1 Cyril J. INVINE - 1206953 - age 33.

B - Not found in Flight Global:
AC2 Henry B. MOREFIELD - 1607235.

C - Proposed aircraft losses:
Blenheim I - K7126 - 12 (P)AFU - crashed on landing Spittlegate.
Master I - N7619 - 8 FTS - crashed on overshoot Cranwell.
Beaufighter VI - JL732 - 301 FTU - bellylanded Lyneham.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Warner has Blenheim,K7126 as SOC at Spitalgate but reports no casualties
Cunliffe, registered at Howden, E Yorkshire. The area was actually split prior to the war into Howdenshire and Holderness but is regularly abbreviated on the register.Both areas lie just N of the River Humber
Invine,33, registered at Hendon, Middlesex,N London
Morefield,20, registered at Bridgend, Glamorgan
I found a Thomas Amies(no F),37, registered at Lincoln,County Town of Lincolnshire
Regards
Dick

[Henk Welting]

As ever, thanks Dick for your excellent help on death registrations.
Regards,
Henk.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

Cpl Herbert L. CUNLIFFE - 1074069 - the Shipley Times and Express of May 12th 1943 reported the following:

GREENGATES AIRMAN'S DEATH
Corpl. Herbert Lister Cunliffe, of Undercliffe (R.A.F.), has died in hospital. He was the son of the late Mr. Walter Cunliffe, who kept the Roe Buck at Greengates for a number of years, and later the Peel Park Hotel, in Otley Road, Bradford.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Henry Benjamin Morefield 1607235 , attached to Number 4 SOTT , was admitted to RAF Hospital St Athan on 29 April where he died of a cereberal heamorhage with his family at his bedside

[jonheyworth]

Peter Patrick ( PATRIC in his records ) Naughton 641577 , was reported missing believed drowned in a bathing accident at Monastir Bay

[jonheyworth]

Cyril John Invine 1206953 , attached to RAF Oban, was seriously injured in a road accident and was Admitted the EMS hospital at Mill Hill London, where he died of his injuries at 22:45 Hours

[jonheyworth]

Franciszek Dzwon P/784341, attached to TTC, died at the Polish TTC at RAF Halton, of a self inflicted cut throat

[norfolkjohn]

AC1 Thomas Amies, died in a military hospital in Lincoln of respiratory failure related to a cerebral haemorrhage and aneurism of a branch of the middle cerebral artery (info from death cert.) He had been serving with 93 MU at Norton Disney.

[jonheyworth]

AC1 Thomas Amies, died in a military hospital in Lincoln of respiratory failure related to a cerebral haemorrhage and aneurism of a branch of the middle cerebral artery (info from death cert.) He had been serving with 93 MU at Norton Disney.

Well done again, if you're working your way through Norfolk, death certs are the only route to account for : 1259937 Cole, & 1200763 Hammond