Blenheim discovery

I’m not sure if the original photo has shown up on my old thread, so here it is again for those who didn’t see it.

Blenheim 1 of 90Sqdn K 7091 at Bicester Oxon May 1937

I’m not sure if the original photo has shown up on my old thread, so here it is again for those who didn’t see it.

Blenheim 1 of 90Sqdn K 7091 at Bicester Oxon May 1937

Report on dedication here with photographs and details of the pilots family tree ; http://tophilllow.blogspot.co.uk/

Report on dedication here with photographs and details of the pilots family tree ; http://tophilllow.blogspot.co.uk/

A short report here about the plaque dedication ;
http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/Brief/story-16012782-detail/story.html

Thanks Alan , I’ll try to paste in the link again ;

http://tophilllow.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/blenheim-palace.html .

I don’t know the names of the relatives but I believe they responded to an article in The Northern Echo ; http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/durham/9676526.Nature_reserve_s_honour_to_Durham_City_airman_70_years_on/

Thanks for the reminder Dave, so he was an only child as I’d sort of suspected the other day after failing to find any other related births on the register. I’m glad that some relatives came forward, just shows the power of a bit of press coverage.

The link doesn’t work, you’ll have to the get rid of the stars, the forum is trying to substitute the shortened link component with ASCII for star (%2A) which is bring up a 404 error.

Dedication this Sunday , 6 May

Just a reminder that the dedication of the new hide in memory of the Blenheim pilot takes place this Sunday , 6 May . The reserve is open from 13:00 hrs with the dedication at 15:00 hrs . See here for the latest details ;

http://tophilllow.********.co.uk/201…im-palace.html

Although the pilot Angus McBean was an only child thanks to press coverage up here in the north east his cousins step daughter and another relative hope to attend the event to represent his family and take along photographs of Angus in his younger years . Fittingly it also appears that in his youth he was a bird watcher so quite an appropriate link to the dedication of the hide .

In the link above is another link to a previous thread on this forum from 9 June 2011 started by xtangomike who bought a box of old photos at a car boot sale one of which was this Blenheim , K7091 . See here ;

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=109575

It’s a small world !

Blenheim K7091 crashed near Standingholme Farm, Hempholme, Catfoss, Yorkshire on 6 May 1942 killing sole occupant pilot Sgt ANGUS McBEAN #1014015 aged 25

What is the source of the info, please?

A little bit more here ;

http://www.yorkshirewater.com/pressrelease.aspx?ID=80256ECF00400F23802579EC0032965E/

A bit more info here about the crash:

http://www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk/aircraft/yorkshire/york42/k7091.html

Angus McBean is commemorated on four memorials around the Durham City area:

Firstly, as a former pupil of Durham Johnston School:
http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=7024

Secondly in Durham Town Hall:
http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=7051

and twice in St Cuthbert’s Church in Durham, where he is buried:
http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=7037
http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=7035

The CWGC gives his parents as John and Mary Jane McBean, of Durham:
http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2837978/McBEAN,%20ANGUS

Regards

Simon

Hi
Hope the parts found get preserved or go to a museum.
cheers
Jerry

Looks like its going to be interesting to track down relatives, looks like cousins at best.

Angus McBean was born in the September quarter, 1916, in Gateshead, his parents had married there in the December quarter of 1913 (it gives in father’s middle initials as McK). Beyond that not much. No sign of any other births registered in England & Wales but I would be willing to bet his father was from Scotland as I can’t find his birth in the England & Wales index. His mother is in there somewhere but Mary Jane Clark isn’t uncommon, especially in the north east.

It may be unrelated but there was a death in 1947 which was registered as John M McBean, age 59 in the Central Durham district.

Blenheim K7091 crashed near Standingholme Farm, Hempholme, Catfoss, Yorkshire on 6 May 1942 killing sole occupant pilot Sgt ANGUS McBEAN #1014015 aged 25

Photo of her here in 1937 in colection of member xtangomike

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=109575