From my database, and from Chorley’s Bomber Command Losses:
Wellington Ic T2896
28 OTU
12:12:1942
Loughborough
Took off from Wymeswold at 2040 for night circuits and landings. Reported to have lost sight of the flarepath and crashed into trees near Loughborough at 2300.
Crew:
Pilot Officer E C Loughead RCAF +
Sergeant C G Foster RNZAF (Injured)
Sergeant Godfrey (Injured)
Flight Sergeant Crickmore (Injured)
Additional Information:
Sergeant Foster was quite seriously injured; it was to be nine months before he was passed fit to fly. Later in the war, while serving with 550 Squadron, he failed to return from the Nuremburg raid in March 1944.