Maddison, Ronald

Maddison, Ronald, 178 malaria, 167 Malaya, 100, 191, 191 Manhattan Project, 81, 101 Marburg fever, 119 Markov, Georgi, 197—8 Marshal, George C, 114 Martin, Trevor, 181 Masuda, Colonel Tomosada, 7 e McDonald, Larry, 117 ... 

Immediately afterwards the Wiltshire Coroner took the unusual step of holding an inquest in camera. The only members of the public allowed inside the courtroom were personnel from Porton Down and the elderly parents of Leading Aircraftman Ronald Maddison, a twenty-year-old National Serviceman from Consett, County Durham. No details of the inquest were made public, and Maddison s father was instructed not to discuss his son s death, even with his wife. It proved impossible, however, to suppress the details of the airman s Death Certificate. The document revealed that Maddison had died from blocking of the bronchial tubes, a classic symptom of nerve gas poisoning. 

Source. Inquest by David Masters, HM Coroner for Wiltshire and Swindon, into the Death of Ronald Maddison, 2004.1 am grateful to Terry Alderson for granting me permission to use the image in... 

In 2004, the author was appointed historical expert to HM Coroner for Wiltshire and Swindon at the inquest looking into the death of Ronald Maddison (Maddison Inquest, abbreviated to MI). Unless stated otherwke, the material presented derives from the Exhibits that were supphed to the interested parties and from the Inquest Transcript Schmidt 2006 Schmidt 2007b Schmidt 2012a. 

MI, Folder lA, Witness Statement Henry John Newman, 27 April 2000 also MI, Folder 2D, Exhibit JAM/16, RAF Service Record Ronald Maddison, pp. 144-5 Laville 2004a. 

Maddison s death was officially registered on 19 May 1953 at Salisbury District MI, Folder 2D, Exhibit CW/1, Certified Copy of Death Certificate of Ronald George Maddison, p. 150. 

Alan Care, Porton Down Death— New Evidence—Did aV Nerve Agent Kill Ronald Maddison , Press Release, 7 November 2002 also Care 2000. 

Hansard Written Ministerial Statements, C167WS, Ronald Maddison, 21 December 2004. 

W, Collection of papers relating to the death of Ronald Maddison, 1953 and the re-opened inquest, 2004... 

Care, A., The Porton Down Settlement and the Legacy of Ronald Maddison Cold War Human Experiments, 1940—1980 , APIL PI Focus, 18 (2008), 3, pp. 22—5. 

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