1942-04-30-Loss of Lucas Scholl Engberts

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RAF Serviceman with Dutch Ancestry

1942-04-30 The Loss of Lucas Scholl Engberts

Crash site: none. He is said to have died from Pneumococcal Meningitis with no evidence of external injury or fracture of the skull in Princess Alice Hospital, Eastbourne, Sussex, GB

Name	Scholl Engberts, Lucas Brookwood 050618 Scholl Engberts b.jpg
Rank	Sgt Vl, Lac/Obs						RAF VR 1550000
Decorations	None known
Born	29/7/1915		Place	Riga, Letland, or Olilla, Finland
Unit	No. 1 Elementary Air Navigation School, Eastbourne. With thanks to David Williams						Ops/hr		0
Aircraft	None
Base	not applicable
Mission	not applicable
Status	Said to have died of disease; may have been the result of a (traffic) accident							age	26
Died	30/4/1942		Place	Princess Alice Hospital, Carew Road, Eastbourne, Sussex, GB Source: Eastbourne Register Office, via David Williams
Buried	Brookwood Military Cemetery, Pirbright, Surrey, GB, RAF plot, grave 21/B/11
Known to	OGS	not any longer			CWGC	yes
Remarks	He was a civil engineer living in Arnewood, Steeles Lane, Oxshott, Surrey Source: Eastbourne Register Office, via David Williams He joined the RAF in April 1941 at Padgate Source: David Williams, 29/02/2008 His grave has a British RAF type headstone. CWGC mentions his parents as living in London: Son of Esper and Maria Scholl-Engberts, B.Sc., Hons. (London) Source: CWGC His Dutch ancesters, coming from Almelo, Overijssel, NL, were merchants living in Russia Source: David Williams, via Henk Welting, email 28/02/2008 Esper Scholl Engberts, born St. Petersburg 20/11/1876, owner of the Paul Karlsson laundry in St. Petersburg; son of Lucas Jan Scholl Engberts and Daria Semonowna Alexejewa Source: http://www.geneaal.nl/data/3741.htm who married in Almelo, NL, on 12/04/1876 Source: Historisch Centrum Overijssel, Inventarisnr: 123.00067/8 His father lived in Riga, Letland, Kalucunna iela 32a-4 Source: Archive MvO, in National Archives, The Hague, Nr. 2.13.71 - 187, via Erwin van Loo
GB arrival	On 5/12/1940. Source: Archive MvO, in National Archives, The Hague, Nr. 2.13.71 - 187, via Erwin van Loo
Memorial	None known
Data Confusion	The MvO Archive mentions that he may have had an accident on 16/04/1942 in Eastbourne. Source: Archive MvO, in National Archives, The Hague, Nr. 2.13.71 - 187, via Erwin van Loo OGS: grave B/11. In 2005 the name was removed from the OGS Casualty Register, because his nationality was not considered to be Dutch after all. Source: OGS, J.J. Teeuwisse, email 5/7/2005 His name is in all Rolls of Honour, produced by the Ministerie van Oorlog in the 1944-1950 period, seen by author. Therefore, he was considered to be a Dutchman at the time. He should be considered as a Dutchman in the present too. His removal from the OGS Casualty Register is unjustified. Confirmed by Erwin van Loo, NIMH, 3/3/2008

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Princess Alice Hospital, Carew Road, Eastbourne, in the center of this aerial photograph, where Lucas Scholl Engberts died. Source: Google Earth. Princess Alice Hospital.jpg

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