Individual Details
Vaughan Gothrik Welsby ENGSTROM
(9 Aug 1913 - 16 Feb 1943)
Events
| Birth | 9 Aug 1913 | Rangitumau, Wairarapa | |||
| Marriage | 17 Oct 1941 | Congregational Church, Matlock Bank, Derbyshire - Hilda Bennett | |||
| Death | 16 Feb 1943 | in an Air Accident as a Flying Instructor with his Canadian Student Pilot - England |  |
Families
| Spouse | Hilda Bennett (1914 - ) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Father | Carl Gothrik ENGSTROM (1867 - 1929) |
| Mother | Ellen Mabel WELSBY (1883 - 1945) |
| Sibling | Linnea Ellen Louise ENGSTROM (1907 - 1993) |
| Sibling | Anne Irene Mabel "Anna" ENGSTROM (1912 - 1983) |
| Sibling | Elsa Marie Sigrid ENGSTROM (1919 - 2006) |
Notes
Death
Flying Instructor, killed in air accident with his Canadian pupilEarlier Crash:
Type: Bristol Type 142L, Blenheim Mk.IV
Serial number: R3692, BL-?
Operation: St-Valéry, F
Lost: 06/06/1940
P/O Vaughn G.W. Engstrom (NZ) Evd - see his page on the Cenotaph Database
Sgt M.R. Chouler PoW
Sgt D. Liddle PoW
Airborne 0815 from Wyton. Force landed in the battle area and two of the crew were soon captured. although wounded, P/O Engstrom made his way to safety and was later admitted to RAF Hospital Uxbridge.
He became an instructor and died in a training accident in 1943, five weeks after the birth of his twin daughters. (source of last sentence: Luftwaffe and Allied Air Forces Discussion Forum)
Sgt M.R.Chouler was interned in Camp 357. PoW No.739. Sgt D.Liddle was initially confined in Hospital before internment in Camp 9C. No PoW No. Subsequently repatriated.