DEANE – David Sewall Wooding

605479 – Sergeant – Pilot – 2 AFU – Anson – KIA at 26

Volunteer UK; Anson instructor. Anson N9718 of No 2 AFU, flown by Sgt Deane crashed 1/2 mile from Millom Coast Guard Station at 0030hrs on 22 Sep 1943. All 5 crew members perished. Buried Chester (Blacon) Cemetery, Chester; Sect A, Grave 501 – Son of Fredrick Gustave Wooding Deane and of Maud Gorring Deane (nee Batson), of Barbados.

[Source: CMHA]

605479 – D.S. Deane – Trinidad – attested 28.7.42 – Sgt. Pilot UK 5.7.43
Killed (FA) 29.4.43

[Source: NA AIR 2/6876]

Name: DEANE, DAVID SEWALL WOODING
Initials: D S W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant (Pilot)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force
Age: 26
Date of Death: 22/09/1943
Service No: 605479
Additional information: Son of Fredrick Gustave Wooding Deane and of Maud Gorring Deane (nee Batson), of Barbados.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. A. Grave 501.
Cemetery: CHESTER (BLACON) CEMETERY

Anson of 2 AFU serial N9718 crashed into sea off Millom Coastguard Station, Cumberland. Also killed: L.S. Gibson, RCAF J/27481 – D. Clayton, 1288501 and W. Dowling, 1562767.

[Source: www.WW2chat.com]

DSW Deane cousin to Charles Parnell King and DSB Davies.
Enlisted in Trinidad and qualified as a Pilot. On arrival in the Uk he was attached to an OTU Special Observers Training School.
On an evening training Mission on coming to land. the runway had changed and the Pilotwas unable to gain sufficient hight and consequently  crashed in the nearby sea. ALL occupants died in the Crash.

David is buried in Blacon Military Cemetery

Derek Davies

[Trinidad Guardian 18 January 1944 - Courtesy Jerome Lee, CMHA]

3 additions to “DEANE – David Sewall Wooding”

  1. Jerome Lee adds:

    Son of Fredrick Gustave Wooding Deane and of Maud Gorring Deane (nee Batson), of Barbados.

    October 25th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
  2. Stella adds:

    My Grandfather was Fredrick Gustave Wooding Deane, from Barbados, any information about the family history would be most welcome, and of great help.

    September 6th, 2013 at 11:18 pm
  3. Brenda Lenaghan adds:

    I too am a grand daughter of Frederick Gustave Wooding Deane. My father, his son by his first wife Helen. My father Edgar ,came to UK to join the North Staffordshire and fought in WW1. His father, Frederick Gustave joined the army medical core. He had trained in Edinburgh as a surgeon and ran the Eastern General hospital in Edinburgh as a military hospital in world war 1 . My father stayed in UK and trained as an engineer in Glasgow and stayed on in Scotland. 12 of April 2016

    April 12th, 2016 at 4:28 pm

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