SOE Plane Crash Burma 1945 Commemorated

Discussion in 'Burma & India' started by Jedburgh22, Dec 20, 2016.

  1. Jedburgh22

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  2. Peter Clare

    Peter Clare Very Senior Member

    7 September 1945

    357 Squadron
    Dakota IV KN584

    Recorded as missing on a day sortie. Burma.

    Casualties

    Warrent Officer Harold Willliam SMITH 23 RCAF
    Flight Sergeant Alexander Fraser CALDER 20
    Flight Sergeant Roy Metcalfe HERDMAN 22
    Flight Sergeant Daniel MCLEMAN

    Captain Alan Leslie GOLDSMITH Royal Engineers
    Corporal Stanley Harold GOODWIN Royal Engineers
    Lieutenant Colonel Edgar James KENNEDY 44 OBE Royal Corps of Signals
    Second Lieutenant Samuel McCammont LITTLE 27 General List ex Gordon Highlanders
    Sergeant Archibald SMITH RAF HQ 904 Wg
    Sergeant Alfred Claude Brenton SOWDEN 27 MM Royal Corps of Signals
    Lieutenant Colonel Sydney Isaac WIGGINTON 31 OBE Sherwood Foresters Regiment

    RAF passengers believed to be:

    Flight Sergeant William Thomas Patrick DAVIES 23
    Flight Sergeant Robert NAPIER
    Leading Aircraftman Frederick John BRYANT
    Flying Officer Bernard HOBART 22 28 Squadron
    Flight Sergeant Donald Hugh WILD 28 Squadron
     
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  3. Npteggchaser

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    Posted this up on Twitter with Dr. Richard Duckett who has written a book on the SOE in Burma, as I thought that Sgt Samuel Little was a possible relation, still researching it -

    Darren Little on Twitter
     
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