Remembering Today Casualty Leading Aircraftman PRIOR, ALBERT JAMES Service Number 841267 Died 03/02/1946 Aged 34 902 Balloon Sqdn., Royal Air Force (Auxiliary Air Force) Son of Henry James Prior, and Mary Prior; husband of Edith Marion Prior, of South Norwood. Buried at CROYDON (MITCHAM ROAD) CREMATORIUM Location: Surrey, United Kingdom Number of casualties: 77 Cemetery/memorial reference: Panel 5.
England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 Name: Albert J Prior Death Age: 33 Birth Date: abt 1913 Registration Date: Mar 1946 Registration district: Surrey Mid eastern Inferred County: Surrey Volume: 2a Page: 407 UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current Name: Leading Aircraftman Albert James Prior Death Date: 3 Feb 1946 Cemetery: Croydon Cemetery and Crematorium Burial or Cremation Place: Croydon, London Borough of Croydon, Greater London, England Has Bio?: N URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-... England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 Name: Albert James Prior Death Date: 3 Feb 1946 Death Place: Surrey, England Probate Date: 7 Jun 1946 Registry: London, England Died at Croydon Borough Sanitorium (Cheam Hospital) - which during WW2 was an emergency hospital Lost_Hospitals_of_London Lost_Hospitals_of_London - interesting link into the set up of emergency hospitals in London, stating: THE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE (EMS) As the prospect of war loomed in the summer of 1939 the Ministry of Health had no idea of how many hospital beds were available and had no means of finding out. TD Added I can only assume it was an accident or illness
