20 OTU

[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."