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[Icare9]

Err..... Just checking the CWGC site and neither the Flood nor Allen families appear, yet they should be commemorated.

Having gone to the extent of having a Memorial dedicated to this accident, can anyone explain why these innocents appear to be Non Commemorations?

[Alan Clark]

As the crash was after VE day the recording of civilian casualties in the UK would almost certainly finished, it might be worth contacting the CWGC for clarification.

The Civilian War Dead category was used for the victims of enemy action, normally bombing / missle attacks, and civilian employees of the different branches of the military, eg staff from the likes of Air Works and airfield construction companies who worked on military sites and died as a result of accidents.

I have come across other cases of people being 'missing', one being a 12 year old who wandered into the coastal minefield around the air station at Millom in May 1942.

Edit: I have checked the CWGC website and found this:

"Civilian War Dead Roll of Honour
During the Second World War, the Commission was given the task of compiling as complete a list as possible of Commonwealth civilians whose deaths were due to enemy action. The complete roll of some 66,400 names is bound in seven volumes and kept near St George’s Chapel in Westminster Abbey, where a different page is displayed each day."

[Icare9]

Have had the civilian deaths clarified but whilst the crew do, the families do not fall within the CWGC remit.

[Alan Clark]

I was at Kew today, there was mention of the crash in the ORB but not P/O Cameron's posting in, he was either posted in while still an NCO or was there on a training course in which case only the number of people on the course were recorded, not the names.

Either way, that idea proved to be a none starter.