MENDHAM, WILFRED ALBERT Rank: Corporal Service No: 1352671 Date of Death: 30/06/1942 Age: 20 Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Grave Reference: 2. C. 17. Cemetery: FAYID WAR CEMETERY Additional Information: Son of William Alfred and Gladys Lillian Emmaline Mendham, of Budby, Nottinghamshire. The cemetery was opened in June 1941 (as Geneifa New War Cemetery) for war burials from the numerous military hospitals in the area. Any info on the loss of this man please.
England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2005 Name: Wilfred A Mendham Mother's Maiden Surname: Grass Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1922 Registration district: Southwell Inferred County: Derbyshire Volume Number: 7b Page Number: 895 Parents marriage: England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 Name: William A Mendham Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1921 Registration district: Southwell Inferred County: Nottinghamshire Spouse: Gladys L E Grass Volume Number: 7b Page Number: 1004 He also had 2 siblings: Walter F Mendham Jan-Feb-Mar 1924 Southwell Derbyshire Stanley P Mendham Oct-Nov-Dec 1929 Southwell Derbyshire Does not answer your question directly but help later TD
Thank you , his cousin Frederick George Mendham died aboard HMS Hood. Both are named on the Budby memorial although Frederick was from Skegness.
also died that day RIGBY, FRANK JOHNSTON Rank: Sergeant Service No: 1062352 Date of Death: 30/06/1942 Age: 27 Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Grave Reference: 2. C. 15. Cemetery: FAYID WAR CEMETERY Additional Information: Son of Frederick William and Margaret Rigby, of Kirkham, Lancashire.
GRO War Death (RAF – All Ranks) 1939-1948 register Name: Mendham, Wilfred A Rank: Cpl No: 1352671 Unit: Shandur Year: 1942 Vol: 10 Page: 308 http://www.rafweb.org/Stations/Stations-S.htm#Shandur
They Spread Their Wings Interesting - Hurricanes at Shandur with 40mm cannons (with AP shells) - looks as though they had a few problems keeping the plane level as they fired them Doing a Google for "Shandur airbase 1942" throws up some good results Also used by SOE, 70 OTU were based there for a while ...................... TD edited to add: No. 6 Squadron (RAF) during the Second World War There is also another thread that includes Shandur in a small way - Hurricane pilot not known....Help!
Old thread I know but an update, Cpl Wifred Albert Mendham, RAF Shandur, died 19 General Hospital, Genifa, Egypt. CoD Injuries caused by the explosion of a grenade. I take it this was an accident ?
