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South Africa / THEUNIS CHRISTOFFEL ROUX b.1913 d. 1943 from Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia
« on: Saturday 27 November 21 14:32 GMT (UK)  »
Greetings, I'm helping an amateur history group in Brittany research the crew of a wartime bomber , that crashed in January 1943.

http://www.absa3945.com/Pertes%20Bretagne/Morbihan/29%20Janvier%201943/Halifax%20HR662.htm



I'm trying to trace photos of the crew and so far have been successful finding 6 of the 7 men, using family history methods to trace living descendents . The RAF didn't take photographs of their personnel, so the only ones are those taken for families , and often still treasured.

The remaining crew member I need to trace is the Pilot,

Pilot Officer (Pilot). ROUX, THEUNIS CHRISTOFFEL, 29 years old. 408 (R.C.A.F.) Sqdn.  Son of Jacobus Francois and Elizabeth Maria Roux, of Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia. LL.B. (Stellenbosch, S.A.).


BIRTH 25 DECEMBER 1913 • Fort Victoria (Masvingo), Midlands, South Rhodesia

DEATH 29 JAN 1943 • France

 

Siblings
Elizabeth Maria Roux
1912–

Johanna Jacoba Roux
1916–1922

Wilhelmina Maria Roux
1921–

Juliana Roux
1924–

Jacobus Francois Roux
1927–


If anyone here has any connection with this family, and might have a photograph of Pilot Officer Roux that could be scanned or digitised, I'd be very interested to hear from you.

Best wishes

Jonathan

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Antrim / William Henry Smyth b 1915 Belfast, flew with RAF WW2, POW 41-55
« on: Wednesday 16 May 12 12:19 BST (UK)  »
greetings,

I am assisting a group of Amateur Historians in Brittany (ABSA) to document WW2 aircraft losses in their area.  One of the aircraft I'm helping with is Blenheim Z6163 of 500 Squadron. It crash landed near Brest in September 1941. The three man crew were unharmed, escaped from the aircraft and successfully evaded capture for 6 weeks, before finally being arrested after a search by the Germans in Nantes. The three men spent the rest of the war in a variety of PoW camps including the famous Stalag Luft III.

The crew were :

Pilot Officer. REECE, FRANCIS (Dunedin, NZ)
Sergeant. SMYTH HENRY W. (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
Sergeant. APPLEYARD JAMES DOUGLAS (Ontario, Canada)
the site we have created is here: http://www.absa3945.com/Pertes%20Bretagne/Cotes%20Armor/28%20septembre%201941/blenheim_iv_z6163.htm We are trying to include a picture of each of the men and possibly some background.

I have copies of the POW report which each man completed in 1945, and I can see that William Henry Smyth was born in 1915 and gave an address on North Rd, Belfast at his time of enlistment. his trade was Furniture Salesman.

I also have copies of pictures taken at the time of the Aircraft ditched on the beach at Brest.

If anyone knows anything about William Henry Smyth or can provide any pointers I would be very interested to hear. This is an entirely amateur effort, both for me and the French association. ABSA would simply like some background on William and ideally a picture, to put along side his fellow crew members. It is possible he is still alive, though alas, his two comrades have since passed away.

many thanks


Jonathan


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