Do you think it is possible to know the places of fall?

[Flavio]

Last week for work reasons I was in Montecchio Precalcino, probably many of you will know that in this small town there is one of the largest burial places of the English soldiers present here for WW1.

And so during a work lunch break I went in, I had already been there years ago with my son but this time I had a more in-depth visit.

I seem to remember from looking at the visitors' book that there are around 438 English soldiers buried here.

The first thing I noticed, however, is that there are at least a dozen, if not more, burials of English airmen.

Honestly (considering the limited period of English troop presence here in the province of Vicenza), I didn't imagine there were so many English air force casualties.

Now my question, I hope I have written in the correct section, it is possible to trace the exact place where the aircraft/aircraft of the individual shootings crashed.

I hope my goggle translator was accurate enough for me to understand.

Thanks guys and a good evening to you all

[jonbem]

Hi Flavio

you could try looking up the names on here

Vault - RAF Museum Storyvault

 

[charlie2]

There is also the excellent „Air History“ website http://www.airhistory.org.uk/rfc/people_index.html

Charlie

[Tawhiri]

A quick search of the CWGC website produces the names of 29 individuals who are buried in this cemetery and who died while serving with the Royal Air Force in WW1. Searching for individuals who served with the Royal Flying Corps before 1 April 1918 doesn't seem to add to this number. 

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/search-results/?Surname=&Forename=&Initials=&ServiceNum=&Regiment=&ServedIn=Air+Force&WarSelect=1&CountryCommemoratedIn=null&Cemetery=MONTECCHIO+PRECALCINO+COMMUNAL+CEMETERY+EXTENSION&Unit=&Rank=&SecondaryRegiment=&SecondaryUnit=&AgeOfDeath=0&DateDeathFromDay=1&DateDeathFromMonth=January&DateDeathFromYear=&DateDeathToDay=1&DateDeathToMonth=January&DateDeathToYear=&DateOfDeath=&Honours=null&AdditionalInfo=&Size=50&Page=1

As jonbem has suggested, the RAF Museum Storyvault would be a good place to start as in theory a death in service should have triggered either an incident or a person casualty card, or both. To get you started the first individual in the list above is Henry Biorn Homan, and these are his associated casualty cards which suggest he was killed in an accident while taking off when serving with 66 Squadron. You would then need to find the airfield that 66 Squadron was based at on 4 April 1914 to find where he was actually killed.

https://www.rafmuseumstoryvault.org.uk/archive/homan-h.b.-hernry-biorn

https://www.rafmuseumstoryvault.org.uk/archive/homan-h.b

https://www.rafmuseumstoryvault.org.uk/archive/homan-h.b.-henry-biorn

https://www.rafmuseumstoryvault.org.uk/archive/7000247462-homan-h.b.-henry-biorn

He also has a casualty form on the RAF Museum's Casualty Forms website at https://www.casualtyforms.org/, which may tell you a little more about his career in condensed form.

https://www.casualtyforms.org/form/11480

His officer's personal file will be in the AIR 76 series at the National Archives, which can be searched at https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/raf-officers-service-records-1918-1919/. Files can be downloaded for free, after first registering for an account at no charge.

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8273775

Edited 1 February by Tawhiri

[Flavio]

I found this reference interesting, it is in Italian but it cites an original publication in English, I have to read carefully because the data seems to be very precise, among other things it cites the first one you found on the list, Lieutenant Homan who with the 66th was in San Pietro in Gu between the provinces of Padua and Vicenza

 

http://www.ilfrontedelcielo.it/files_11/111.htm

[fetubi]

I cover every day, when there was Action involving casualties in the Air on the Italian Front, in Part 4 of my 2014 expanded Book The Sky Their Battlefield II - both in the face of the enemy, as well as Accidents, in the Accidents Addendum towards the rear of the book.  Almost 17,000 British, Commonwealth and American Allied Airmen are Listed in the Name Indexes.  

www.theskytheirbattlefield2.com

Take a look.

Cheers,

Trevor

 

Edited 11 February by fetubi

[Flavio]

Thank you very much for the report, I have already talked about it with my son so that I can purchase it and receive it from us in Italy

[fetubi]

1 hour ago, Flavio said:

Thank you very much for the report, I have already talked about it with my son so that I can purchase it and receive it from us in Italy

That's great Flavio. I'll await the Order.

And you're in Vicenza... as a great fan of Palladio, I love your city!

Trevor

  

[Flavio]

Perhaps this may be to your liking @fetubi

In reality the place of discovery is not Sandrigo, but Villaverla, home to an airfield still used today for tourist planes

https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/297426-info-wooden-crate-found-in-the-attic

Edited 14 February by Flavio