Have you seen Daniel MASON re age 24/31 on the website (Google)

430416-Unaccounted airman 16-4-1943 RAF Command 1939

Numbers of names listed under A B and C

B : - Died on active service:

AC2 Daniel MASON - 1359610 - age 31 - a few replies then this one

'F1180 for Oxford N4723 of No. 3 (P) AFU records it was out of control on take off and struck an airman with the tailplane.

The casualty box has 1 3rd Party fatality

'Suggest that as aerodrome was at South Cerney.......

I have a Daniel Mason registered as Swindon, Wiltshire, but the age was only 24 where CWGC has your man as 31.

As Swindon is the local hospital where injured from the aerodrom were usually taken'

Hi Chris,
no doubt you've looked already but Ancestry FreeSearch seems to agree with FreeBMD which only shows this Death Record wrt year & age.

Surname Given Name Age District Volume Page Transcriber
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Deaths Jun 1943
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MASON Daniel 24 Swindon 5a 2 Kaehansen

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Please do you know if the Wiltshire area is correct for the crash location ?,
Was it an accident during training perhaps, rather than due to direct enemy action ?

If so perhaps you can help me better understand the subject of service Death Records during WW2 ?
I've come to the conclusion purely based on experience that the registration of Deaths as shown on FreeBMD etc does NOT include direct casualties of War ??
However presumably ?? in instances such as this, if the crash was an accident and not due to enemy action, would it have been treated as a Civil matter so recorded in the "usual" way HENCE on FreeBMD etc ?

Any thoughts gratefully recieved, thanks.
Jeff.

UPDATE ! Sorry hadnt seen MPG's post as I'm a slow typist ! Maybe my accident thery is correct ?

Hi MPG, please if possible could you advise what website you've seen, many thanks.

Thanks to Jeff & Marilyn.

This one isn't mine, I am trying to clarify age for a poster on Gene's Reunited.
She is actually looking for his birth. She says that his parents were Frederick MORGAN and Gladys POWELL so we can't quite work out why he would be a MASON!

The poster has not returned as yet.