Memorials in your neighborhood.

There’s a memorial to a 158 sqn Halifax crew on a bridle path near Atwick, E.Yorks. Was virtually forgotten about till a few years back when a local schoolkid happened across it and decided it needed cleaning up and making more noticeable, out of respect for the crew. Fair play to them.

Atwick Memorial photos;
http://www.airfields.fotopic.net/atwick

Halifax NA581, a 425 Squadron BIII & Wellington HE616, both of which crashed within the vicinity of Blyth in Nottinghamshire – it is situated on the village green.

I have been researching the Halifax crash, which came down in very tragic circumstances with the loss of all the crew.

As Blyth is on the A1, if you get the chance, pop & have a look.

Blyth Memorial photos;
http://airfields.fotopic.net/blyth

8 miles away from me on the A344 at Stonehenge are two memorials. The first is to Major A.W. Hewetson, who died when his plane crashed very close to the site of the memorial. The inscription reads ‘In memory of Major Alexander William Hewetson 66th battery Royal Field Artillery who was killed whilst flying on the 17th July 1913 near this spot’. The second is 1km to the west at Airman’s cross and is inscribed ‘To the memory of Captain Loraine and Staff-Sergeant Wilson who whilst flying on duty, met with a fatal accident near this spot on July 5th 1912 Erected by their comrades’.
I imagine there were quite a few casualties in this area with the first military aeroplane trials taking place at Larkhill in August 1912, only 1 mile north of Stonehenge.

Stonehenge Memorial;
http://airfields.fotopic.net/stonehenge

Just up the road is known as Airmans Cross, Memorial here;
http://airfields.fotopic.net/airmanscross

Cheers

Richard

Hi,

Attached a photo of the grave of Charles Philp at the graveyard in Dearsum.
Whas he the tailgunner?

Regards,

Mathieu.

There’s a memorial to a 158 sqn Halifax crew on a bridle path near Atwick, E.Yorks. Was virtually forgotten about till a few years back when a local schoolkid happened across it and decided it needed cleaning up and making more noticeable, out of respect for the crew. Fair play to them.

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8 miles away from me on the A344 at Stonehenge are two memorials. The first is to Major A.W. Hewetson, who died when his plane crashed very close to the site of the memorial. The inscription reads ‘In memory of Major Alexander William Hewetson 66th battery Royal Field Artillery who was killed whilst flying on the 17th July 1913 near this spot’. The second is 1km to the west at Airman’s cross and is inscribed ‘To the memory of Captain Loraine and Staff-Sergeant Wilson who whilst flying on duty, met with a fatal accident near this spot on July 5th 1912 Erected by their comrades’.
I imagine there were quite a few casualties in this area with the first military aeroplane trials taking place at Larkhill in August 1912, only 1 mile north of Stonehenge.

A little more Mathieu from Bill Chorley’s excellent series of books Bomber Command Losses:

Halifax II W7714 LQ-K, took off at 2306 from Pocklington to bomb Bremen. Shot down by a night-fighter and crashed 0214 at Deersum (Friesland) 13 km SSW of Leeuwarden, Holland. F/Sgt Philp is buried in Rawderderhem (Deersum) Protestant churchyard ; the rest of the crew have no known grave.
F/Sgt L. SIDNEY RCAF +
Sgt C.W. WALSH RCAF +
Sgt E.K. BRENNAN RCAF +
Sgt G.A. WHITE +
F/Sgt R.A.A. GORIEU RCAF +
Sgt T.G. GUNN +
F/Sgt C.P. PHILP +

No. 405 Squadron lost two others crew that night, F/Sgt CHINN RAAF + 7, no survivor, W1113 LQ-G and F/L H. LIVERSIDGE + 6, only survivor was the rear gunner Sgt J. W. DUMOND RCAF, Pow, in W7715 LQ-H.

Notice Sgt White was RAFVR, not Canadian as I wrote earlier – my error.

Brian

Mathieu,

Further to my last Gunn and Philp were RAFVR, the others all Canadians. Philp is the one interred at Ranwerederhem (Deersum) Protestant Churchyard (Source CWGC).

Brian

Hi,

Thanks for your replies! Interesting to find out what happened so close to my house. Tomorrow I’ll make a photo of the grave. Some info about the placename: the place were the graveyard is is Dearsum ( frisian name for Deersum). Until 1984 this village belonged to the municipal Rauwerderhem. January 1984 this municipal merged with some other municipals into a new municipal with the name Boarnsterhim.
@ Cees, getting more interesting, A halifax! I allways thought that is was a Lancaster!

Best regards,

Mathieu.

Mathieu,

Further to my last Gunn and Philp were RAFVR, the others all Canadians. Philp is the one interred at Ranwerederhem (Deersum) Protestant Churchyard (Source CWGC).

Brian

Memorial for the bomb raids on Ede 17 september 1994. http://www.ww2museums.com/article/7781/Memorial-Bomb-Raids-on-Ede.htm

Blimey Mathieu, a Halifax?

Cees

On the Airfield Information Exchange forum you will find several hundred memorials listed by county.

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Halifax NA581, a 425 Squadron BIII & Wellington HE616, both of which crashed within the vicinity of Blyth in Nottinghamshire – it is situated on the village green.

I have been researching the Halifax crash, which came down in very tragic circumstances with the loss of all the crew.

As Blyth is on the A1, if you get the chance, pop & have a look.

memorials in yr neighbourhood

Halifax W7714 LQ-K

t/o POCKLINGTON (not Topcliffe)

one crew member is buried in Ranwerederhem (Deersum) Protestant Churchyard

robert

Mathieu,

The CWGC gives the crew as being from 405 Squadron; the squadron was based at Topcliffe at the time, flying Halifaxes. No graves as you say but all are remembered on the Runnymede Memorial.

Brian