Leading Aircraftman S J DESAI (IND/25908) RIAF Died 24th Feb 1946

Submitted by paulmcmillan on Tue, 06/20/2023 - 15:38

Dear All

I am part of a project at RAFCommands to fully document all Commonwealth Airman deaths 1939 to 1947 on CWGC 

the CWGC has brief details name age ,unit date etc but not cause we are filling that a gap and as of June 2023 we have over 98.5% coverage

https://www.rafcommands.com/database/wardead/

122,433 casualty records in this database.
120,634 records (98.53%) are "Accounted for".
99,931 are aviation. 20,703 are non-aviation deaths.
1,799 are still unaccounted.

However, we have 1 Royal Indian Air Force member who remains totally unknown re cause he is  

Leading Aircraftman S J DESAI (IND/25908) who died 24th Feb 1946

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2815586/s-j-desai/

HONG KONG (HAPPY VALLEY) PARSEE CEMETERY

Grave 115.

China, (including Hong Kong)

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
Country of Service
Indian
Additional Info
Son of J. F. Desai and Shirin Bai, of Bombay, India.

 

We don't even know his full name. I don't suppose anyone here can provide any more information on this man ?

For reference  these are all the records for Hong Kong

https://www.rafcommands.com/database/wardead/index.php?qname=&qnum=&qdate=&tdate=&qunit=&qappt=&qforce=&qregion=&qcntry=Hong+Kong&qmem=&srname=&serialno=

And as you can see this gives an example of a fully accounted airman

 

https://www.rafcommands.com/database/wardead/details.php?qnum=45476

 

 

Hope you can help

 

Many Thanks Paul McMillan