John Aeroclub
June 1, 2010 at 9:53 pm

Village green memorial

We dropped off the A1 a couple of weeks ago on, our way to Scotland, to visit the Roman town at Aldborough and give our spaniel Lucy a break. We parked near the village green and we came across this monument to a Lancaster crew.

John

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By: John Aeroclub - 2nd June 2010 at 18:07

Thanks Don

I have Chorley’s BCL but for some reason I hadn’t found the time to look it up/

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John

I think the memorial is a case of “all Lancs have Merlins”, but nice to see all the same.

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By: critter592 - 2nd June 2010 at 00:44

Hello John,

From Chorley’s BCL Vol. 5:

Lancaster Mk.II
LL686 QO-F

Took off 1940 from East Moor. (Training). Returned almost 2 hours later with the port outer engine misfiring. While preparing to land, crashed into trees 2140 near Ripon, Yorks. and caught fire.
All are buried at Harrogate (Stonefall) Cemetery, except Sgt Huggins, who is at rest in Bradford (Bowling) Cemetery.

Don