hi,
whilst traveling to our holiday site in Caister,i passed a churchyard and saw 7 war grave marker stones in a row,so after settling in a took a walk to look at them.They were all dated the same- 24th Sept.1947 their names were-
2263628 aircraftsman 1st class D.F.G. CUMMINGS age 23yrs.
926800 Pilot S.F. WHITLOCK 26yrs.
Flt.Lt. J.G. COOK 24yrs.
527043 Engineer 11 W.ALLISON 34yrs.
1820826 Pilot 1V J.A. GUEST 22yrs.
Flt.Lt. R.V.HAVARD 24yrs.
3031017 Gunner 11 V.O.WOODS 22yrs
any info on these with it being 1947 would be great.
So then I wandered round and also saw-
Pilot F/o C.C.G.WEBB. RNZAF 10/10/41 28yrs.
Flt.Sgt R.F. CAMPBELL. Observer RCAF 30/1/42 27yrs.
P/O A.L.FOX Air Observer RCAF 21/12/42 22yrs.
these 3 from the Dominions,strange not taken home for burial.
Finally 2 in the older section
Flt.Sub Lt. J.E.NORTHROP 2/3/17 22yrs.
Flt.Lt.E.L.PULLING DSO RNAS 2/3/17 26yrs.
As I said above any help with finding out about the above men and the circumstances of their deaths, will mean to me they are not forgotten.
With it being a sea area there were lots (unfortunately) of Merchant and Royal navy markers,Also army.
regards
jack…
By: Lyffe - 19th July 2013 at 09:48
See
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1916/1916%20-%201074.html?search=Pulling
and
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1917/1917%20-%200234.html?search=Pulling
By: jack windsor - 18th July 2013 at 21:54
hi,
been googling about the 2 RNAS deaths,and found this, Pulling was awarded the DSO for being 1 of 3 BE2c,s to shoot down L.21 on the morning of 28th Nov1916.On the 2nd Mar 1917, Northrop asked Pulling if he would loop him,as they got to the top of the loop a wing failed and they spun in.
regards
jack…
By: jack windsor - 18th July 2013 at 20:44
Thanks Andy,wonder why they are buried in Caister?also any info on the others in the list anyone?
regards
jack…
By: Lyffe - 17th July 2013 at 15:34
A bit of Googling led me to http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/998-lincoln-bomber-re373/ , and answer my own question, although the cause is gven as a lightning strike, rather than the aircraft breaking up. That said there are inconsistencies in the newspaper reports and another pilot recorded that he could avoid clouds by flying at 10000 ft.
Brian
By: Lyffe - 17th July 2013 at 15:21
Andy,
I’m intrigued by the reference to CB as there appears to have been a quite substantial ridge building from mid-Atlantic across the UK (ridge line roughly Shannon to NE England). On the basis of admittedly very limited met data, it wasn’t the sort of situation I’d have expected to see deep convection, let alone a CB sufficiently vigorous to cause a large aircraft to break-up in flight. Do you have any other details?
There was a brief report of the accident in The Times, but no mention of the weather, simply that it was inbound from the North Sea.
Just curious, that’s all.
Brian
By: Arabella-Cox - 17th July 2013 at 12:41
The crew lost on 24 September 1947 were lost in Lincoln RE373 which broke up in heavy cu-nim cloud at Mautby, near Cranwell. The aircraft was from 97 Squadron.
Also lost in the incident:
Sig II Albert WATTLEWORTH
Gnr II Roy Andrew TRUNDLE
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