16 SFTS RAF Newton
 

Has anybody a list of losses from the 16 SFTS at RAF Newton or can point me in the right direction to find them preferably without a trip to the NA. I have the crew names and aircraft types but would like serial numbers and locations. Also the same for a 12 P APU Blenhiem RAF Spittlegate 19/8/44. As an aside to this , I have the death certificates from the GRO for the Polish killed outside the boundaries of the airfield but some from inside are not on record ( this is different to RAF listing usually down as " War Operations " ). Did the PAF bases come under Polish duristricion ? Example 2 Polish airmen riding 2's up on a push bike , hit buy a lorry on the Fosseway. 1 killed at the scene death cert at GRO , 1 taken to RAF Newton SSQ and dying there , no record at GRO. Both buried at CWGCplot Newark.

Re: 16 SFTS RAF Newton
 

Hello,

Re: No.12(P)AFU, 19 August 1944 loss:

19-8-1944
No.12(P)AFU
Blenheim V AZ890

Flew into ground at night near Wymondham, Leicestershire, cause unknown.

P-782478 W/O (Pupil/Pilot) Tadeusz JULSKI PAF +

An alternative source states that the Blenheim crashed near Lodge Farm, east of Buckminster, Leicestershire.

Col.

Re: 16 SFTS RAF Newton
 

Thank you.

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Re: 16 SFTS RAF Newton
 

Hello,
Found the following in ABs RAF Serial books.

25 not 23/7/42 - Oxford I - V3866.
25/5/43 - Master III - W8450.
7/7/43 - Master III - W8706.
2/9/43 - ?
25/2/44 - Master II - DM283.
25/3/44 - Master II - DL938.
12/5/44 - Oxford I - LW965.
16/6/44 - Oxford I - ED236, but ECFS.
19/7/44 - Oxford I - P9994.
12/10/44 - Master II - DM424.

Alex

Re: 16 SFTS RAF Newton
 

Hello,

2/9/1943
No.16(P)SFTS
Master III DL676*

Hit by (Master) W8693 while taxying on runway, Tollerton.

703229 Sgt (Pilot U/T) Stanislaw WAYDOWICZ +

* Need confirmation (or otherwise) on Master serial - A-B Serials quotes date as "15/9/43".

Col.

Re: 16 SFTS RAF Newton
 

Hello Col,
From Henk's list , he had 2-9-43 for DL676, Sgt/Cadet(P) Waydowicz.
Odd about the date, W8693 continued in service well after the ground collision

Also to confirm death,
http://listakrzystka.pl/en/?p=309300

Alex

Re: 16 SFTS RAF Newton
 

Hello Col,
Can you help ?
In the Krzystka's link I gave there is a reference to "318/N".

RAF (?) – Master – pochowany na cment. w Newark (318/N).

I have looked and found that Harvard II FT318 served with this training unit. I thought that it could have been the a/c that Waydowicz was involved with have been this Harvard ? But the Harvard File has FT318 with the unit from September '44.
So "318/N" is a reference to something else ?
Alex

Re: 16 SFTS RAF Newton
 

Alex,

"318/N", is Sgt Waydowicz's grave number in Newark Cemetery.

Col.

Re: 16 SFTS RAF Newton
 

Hello Col,
Thanks for the answer, I missed it completely.
Alex