Pioneer Corps - Fatal Accident. Tubbergen Holland, September 1945

I am a Dutch military history enthusiast whose is researching details of a fatal accident involving two British Army units close to my home town of Tubbergen in Eastern Holland on the 6 September, 1945

The accident occurred while two British Army units were destroying German ammunition and an explosion occured badly injurying atleast one soldier who was taken to a hospital in Nijmegen where he died.

One of the units involved was 215 Company Pioneer Corps, the other a RAOC Independent Ammunition Ordnance Company which might have been 52 or 54

Can anyone help me identify the RAOC Company and in particular more information of the soldier killed as a result of the explosion? The information from the soldier (CWGC information):

Rank: Private
Service No: 13110957
Date of Death: 13-09-1945
Age: 22
Regement/Service: Pioneer Corps / 215 Coy.

Thank you for your reactions

In the attachement a picture at the ammo dump

 

Hello
full details below to assist forum members

DOW, JOHN YOUNG Rank: Private Service No: 13110957 Date of Death: 13/09/1945 Age: 22 Regiment/Service: Pioneer Corps 215 Coy. Grave Reference VI. H. 4. Cemetery GROESBEEK CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Additional Information:
Son of John Young Dow and Maggie Forsyth Dow, of Aberdeen, Scotland.



regards
Clive

 

from CWGC, Pte John Young DOW, Pioneer Corps, aged 22

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2663140/DOW,%20JOHN%20YOUNG


beaten to it!!

 

There maybe something in these files on the incident:

WO 171/7364 215 Company 1945 Jan.- Dec.
WO 171/6775 52 Company 1945 Jan.- Dec.

Cheers
Andy

 

Thank you for your reactions. I went to the grave of the soldier in Groesbeek last summer, so the place I know. Where i'm looking for is information about of 54 Independent Ammunition Ordnance Company RAOC who could have been the custodial unit at a fatal accident involving 215 Company Pionier Corps at Tubbergen in Holland in early September 1945 (there is no War Diary for the unit in the WO 171 Series at Kew)

Some information about the 6th. Canadian Casulty Clearing Station is welcome too, because we found the name in the investigation too.

 

Have you checked this one - WO 171/6964 54 Coy RAOC 01 June 1945 - 31 December 1945

 

Drew

Thank you

Found the 52 and 215 Company War Diaries when I visited Kew on Mark's behalf last week (52 Company was based over the Border in Wulfen in September 1945 but missed the 54 Company reference (excuse being it is shown as a GD Company not specialist Ammunition Company)

Will add your reference to my archive shopping list for my next visit to Kew

 

It's worth a check-It may not be the one but you never know unless you look.