Military Graves in the UK post WW2 Newark-upon-Trent

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Looking for some info on the following people is anyone can help. The Newark cemetery holds many Commonwealth and Polish War Graves in the CWGC plot in middle section eastern side. To the east of this is section B which is held for the burials of ex Polish service personnel who have past away after 1947. To the west of the CWGC plot are the service personnel graves of the UK and the 1941 Ransome and Marles bombing. Can anybody fill in the details of the following ?

RAF F/Lt F Kula MM DoD 17/3/48 - Wellington RP499 RAF Topcliffe
RAF F/Lt H J Fuller DoD 1/5/53 - Havard XXXX RAF Syerston
RAF F/Lt R Herrick DoD 6/5/53 - Harvard XXXX RAF Syerston
RN Mid A E W Kelly DoD 27/8/55 HMS Gamecock
RN Mid A H G Low DoD 14/10/55 HMS Gamecock - Percival Provost T1 WV502 RAF Syerston
RAF Sqdn/L G H Tansley AFC DoD 14/10/55 - Percival Provost T1 WV502 RAF Syerston
REME Pte Desmond Leonard Parkes 22995790 DoD 1/12/55. Died in Hendon Middlesex
RAF Sgt E D Simpson DoD 20/9/58 - Vulcan VX770 Syerston air show
RAF Sgt C Hanson DoD 20/9/58 - Vulcan VX770 Syerston air show
RAF Sqdn/L R C L Haggett 19/4/68 - Shackleton WB833 Mull of Kintyre RAF Ballykelly.


Shaun

 

RP 499
Accident Vickers Wellington T Mk X RP499, 17 Mar 1948
On the morning of 17th March 1948, a number of airmen of No.1 Air Navigation School, RAF, were undertaking training exercises in two separate aircraft. Both were Vickers Wellington T.Mk10s At 09.47 hours one Wellington (RP565) had just taken off and was climbing away to join the circuit in a left hand turn. Another Wellington (RP499) was descending to join the circuit and was probably making a banked left turn. The two aircraft collided just north of the airfield and both aircraft broke up in the air.
A large part of one landed on the Sgt's Mess inside the Camp and a large part of the other crashed into a field a few hundred yards away. The Mess sustained serious damage to it but there were no casualties on the ground. Sadly all eight airmen (four on each aircraft) were killed in the incident. Their names however have not been traced to actually who was on which aircraft as the station record of this was not completed. Which aircraft hit the mess is also not 100% confirmed.
The accident was put down to neither aircraft's pilot being able to see the other. Here after it was recommended that the seat next to the pilot should be occupied so that there could be a lookout on the blind (right) side. This was a known Wellington quirk but was not looked at during Wartime flying.
Pilot (of RP499) - F/Lt Franciszek Kula MM RAF (P/2204), aged 34, originally from W.Bukowiec, Poland. Buried Newark Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.
Pilot (of RP565) - Pilot II Colin Bass RAF (1603236), aged 25, of High Wycombe, Bucks. Buried West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
The other six airmen were....
Signaller II Walter Ernest Leslie Howell RAF (1023588), aged 27, of Bargoed, Glamorgan. Buried Bedwellty Churchyard, Bargoed, Monmouthshire.
Signaller II Arthur Edward Highman RAF (1333571), aged 25, of Peckham, London. Buried Norwood Cemetery, West Norwood, London.
F/Lt William James Jones RAF (153310), aged 25, of Lambeth, London. Buried Topcliffe Cemetery, Yorkshire.
F/Lt Robert Sneddon Laird RAF (149193), aged 31, of Falkirk, Stirlingshire. Buried Bo'ness Cemetery, West Lothian.
F/Lt Harry Corelius New RAF (165262), aged 26, of Smethwick, Staffordshire. Buried Uplands Cemetery, Smethwick, Staffordshire.
F/Lt John Edge Kerslake RAF (182652), aged 24, of Rainworth, Nottinghamshire. Buried Topcliffe Cemetery, Yorkshire.

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WV 502
Accident Percival Provost T1 WV502, 14 Oct 1955
Written off 14/10/1955: Destroyed when dived into the ground at Winkburn, Nottinghamshire. Both crew killed

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WB 833
ASN Aircraft accident Avro Shackleton MR.2 WB833 Glenmanuilt Hill, Mull of Kintyre
The Shackleton MR.2 prototype had taken off from Ballykelly on an anti-submarine exercise early in the morning . The area around Mull of Kintyre was shrouded in thick sea mist. The Shackleton climbed up through the mist and the aircraft struck rising ground near Garvalt cottage.

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Name: Alastair Hugh Gavin Low
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 2 Feb 1936
Birth Place: Rajkot, India
Event Type: Birth
Father: Alastair Petrie Low
Mother: Mary Katherine Low Mitchell

England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Alastair H G Low
Death Age: 19
Birth Date: abt 1936
Registration Date: Dec 1955
Registration district: Southwell
Inferred County: Nottinghamshire
Volume: 3c
Page: 429

A copy of this will tell you what he died from
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Gamecock KENNY, Anthony E W, Midshipman, died (Not Kelly as your list)
Royal Navy casualties, killed and died, 1955


England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Anthony E W Kenny
Death Age: 20
Birth Date: abt 1935
Registration Date: Sep 1955
Registration district: Newark
Inferred County: Nottinghamshire
Volume: 3c
Page: 164

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Desmond L Parkes in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007

Name: Desmond L Parkes
Death Age: 23
Birth Date: abt 1932
Registration Date: Dec 1955
Registration district: Hendon
Inferred County: Middlesex
Volume: 5e
Page: 486

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Harold J Fuller - died 4 May 1953
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-
Name: Harold John Fuller
Death Date: 4 May 1953
Death Place: Nottinghamshire, Nottingham, England
Probate Date: 20 Jun 1953
Registry: Leicester, England


England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Harold J Fuller
Death Age: 30
Birth Date: abt 1923
Registration Date: Jun 1953
Registration district: Southwell
Inferred County: Nottinghamshire
Volume: 3c
Page: 391

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Robert Herrick
England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Robert Herrick
Death Age: 33
Birth Date: abt 1920
Registration Date: Jun 1953
Registration district: Southwell
Inferred County: Nottinghamshire
Volume: 3c

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Thanks Tricky , sorry about the typo ( my mind had wondered ). I've ordered Kenny's and Parkes's death certs. I can't find any corresponding air accident for Kenny so think it may have been a " general " accident or illness. Same for Parkes

 

Parkes was REME anyway so probably not an air related death, be interesting to see the results

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Yes , I'll post as soon as I get them. I mean Parkes being some form of accident or illness non air related. I'm working at the moment with Piotr Hodyra on the Polish/Commonwealth war graves in the cemetery. But we want to add some details on the WW1 , R&M bombing and post 1947 burials to. Some bilingual publication hoping to be finished by the end of this year. At the moment the Friends of the cemetery are busy with the WW1 centenary and 75th anniversary of General Sikorski , Tadeusz Klimecki, Andrzej Marecki and Jozef Ponikiewski burials.

 

Just got the DC's from GRO : Desmond L Parkes 5 AA Group workshops REME Hawton Road Camp , shock and hemorrhage due to a fracture of the base of his skull. Sustained when the motorcycle he was riding collided with a post on Watford Way and junction of Mill Hill Greys. Inquest 6/12/1955 verdict accidental. Mid RN Anthony Kenny RAF Syerston , injuries to the brain due to a fracture of the base of the skull after the deceased jumped into the path of an oncoming car. Died Newark General Hospital. Inquest held 30/8/1955 verdict accidental.

 

Just worked out how to join.
Sqn Ldr George Herbert TASNEY (not Tansley) was my grandad. He was a flying instructor at RAF Syerston. His pupil, Alistair Low, and he died when their Percival Provost crashed in woods near Winkburn on Friday 14 October 1955. He was survived by my Grandma, Dorothy, who had served in the WRAF at Woodhall Spa during the war, my mother (9 at the time) and uncle (6 at the time). Before Syerston Tas had been posted to Rhodesia where he was involved with the training of local pilots. I'm not sure when he joined the Royal Air Force.

 

Hi ML68

Welcome aboard and thanks for the extra information - always good to have direct details

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