Easy
Pop over here
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/recordsearch/index.aspx
Stick his name in and find his Service Number – Or look it up on CWGC
Use his Service Number to search again
If no records already digitized, request it to be!
QED
Chris
Thanks – That is why there is no death registration then!
Paul
What about Curl ?
If a body is never recovered I am unsure you will get a death registration as you need a cause of death signed by a doctor or coroner and without a body this is not always possible….
Interesting
G-INFO gives G-AOMO as C/N PAC-138 and serial = VR292 !!
There was a list published in Air Pictorial February 1958 Page 65… ‘From the Horse Mouth’ i.e. direct from Aviation Traders. Scan of page to large for here.. I see if I can post on a photo hosting site and link
Prehaps he was unlucky and lost it?
Dave
Just a few typos/Updates
Pup Pilot was James Hervey (not Harvey) Hall
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=376265
Master was N7602 of 8 FTS not NI602
Leading Aircraftman Ernest Dowling Clarke #1251069 of 8 FTS
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2459495
His body was found on Hill of Fingrey, Kincardineshire on the 24th December 1940
Dave in box cleared but yes I will give proper credit
Dave I will try not to get excited that this can be closed for good
Found it.
Dave
Dave and Dave
Dave G-ASEA
Thanks for that post..
Dave ‘High Ground Wrecks’
If you could dig out the information about the location and pilots name that would be great it would put to death a 70 year old mystery (the aeroplane spotter story) and a 95 old one as well (when the camel crashed’.)..
Many Thanks
Paul
Highland Sopwith Camel Crash – Zombie
I first read about the crashed Camel in one of my father,s old war time Aeroplane Spotter magazines. I cant remember which year it was. I must go through them again when i get time. I wrote to David J Smith year,s ago when it was mentioned in a early ‘High Ground Wrecks’ book.
This would be the “28th August 1941” Issue of Aeroplane Spotter – I would love a verbatim version of what it says (if you still have the copy)
BTW Can anyone who has ‘Bomber Crew’ confirm that the lost training aircraft was a Miles Master? The Camel is supposed to be RNAS one…. but as with all this.. the sory might get better an better which each re-telling
Many thanks
Paul
Good job it didn’t land on a cricket pitch and hit the wicket and bails.. I am lead to believe…those things can have a similar effect on the wing….
The joker in the pack of information about Geoffrey Alexander Percival Gamon
is that the Kenya Gazette of 1925, 1926 and 1930 shows him to be with the Kenya Police!David
Yep just found him on Google Books
Also
The Times, Saturday, Apr 17, 1920; pg. 5; Issue 42387; col
The Law Society. Preliminary Examination Result
Successful
G.A.P. Gamon