Mosquito Crash nr Helston Cornwall – WWII

Nice to see this thread re-emerge once again!

I can say with some confidence that “Eightieschick” is not the girl I mentioned in the original thread because said girl from “Chylowen’ small-holding is with me right now! This now begs the question, who is “Eightieschick”?!!!!

I wonder if the poster “Eightieschick” is the girl “Nick8” mentions in his OP who he was going out with ?
How nice that would be !

Both Peter Hunt and Wilfred Milne had their deaths registered in the Kerrier district of Cornwall.

The CWGC lists three 248 Sqn fatalities for 11 April 1944; one, F/O Raymond Thomas Woodcraft, is remembered on the Runnymede Memorial so was unlikely to have been involved in this incident.

This leaves Flt/Sgt Peter Hunt (Pilot), SN 655135, who is buried in Mordon Cemetery.
His navigator was Flt/Sgt Wilfred William Murdoch Milne, SN 1324169, who rests in Isleworth Cemetery.

Brian

It was the barn roof at Wheal Christopher farm that was clipped by the mosquito. The barn with small holding was divided off and changed to Wheal Christopher house many years ago. Then was renamed to Wendron Court Olde Farm 17 or so years ago. Not sure of the pilots nationality, but there were many Polish pilots during WWII. Hope this helps.

Hi Avro683

Sorry that farm doesn’t spring to mind -where exactly is it?

The small holding I mentioned is/was called Chy-an ‘something’

All the best

Nick

Mosquito crash near Helston

Glad to be of help. Thanks for the compliment. If it’s not on the website please ask, it’ll be somewhere in what used to be the spare bedroom!!!;)

Some years ago in my youth I went out with a girl who lived on a small holding in Cornwall. Her Grandparents built/owned the house prior to her living in it so the history known about the place went back to day one.

Knowing that I liked aircraft, her parents told me that an aircraft had crashed into one of their farm buildings during WW11. Turned out it was a Mosquito that presumably was trying to make a forced landing onto one of the fields when things went very wrong and it collided with the corner of the field/hedge/barn, about 200 yrds from the house. Her grandparents either heard or saw all of this happen and went to investigate…

Both crew had been killed in the crash and it turned out they were a foreign crew because scattered around the crash site were a number of foreign coins – either Polish or Czech – I can’t remember which now.

Now I guess this a/c was probably operating out of Predannack but I don’t know this for certain.

My question to this forum is….how could I find out the serial number / squadron number / aircrew names relating to this crash?
As I said the smallholding is at Releath near Helston, Cornwall.

Thanks

Nick

For any of you that are interested, I have at last found out the identity of this Mosquito:

11/04/1944 0805 hours de Havilland Mosquito FB Mark VI MM413 of 248 Squadron based at RAF Portreath while on an Anti-Aircraft patrol crashed into a cloud covered hill at Wheal Christopher Farm, Sithney, Helston. The Mosquito was burnt out and the crew of two were killed.

All credit to the RAF Davidstowmoor web site & its extensive crash history log

http://www.rafdavidstowmoor.org/pages/crash_log/crashlog44.htm

Some years ago in my youth I went out with a girl who lived on a small holding in Cornwall. Her Grandparents built/owned the house prior to her living in it so the history known about the place went back to day one.

Knowing that I liked aircraft, her parents told me that an aircraft had crashed into one of their farm buildings during WW11. Turned out it was a Mosquito that presumably was trying to make a forced landing onto one of the fields when things went very wrong and it collided with the corner of the field/hedge/barn, about 200 yrds from the house. Her grandparents either heard or saw all of this happen and went to investigate…

Both crew had been killed in the crash and it turned out they were a foreign crew because scattered around the crash site were a number of foreign coins – either Polish or Czech – I can’t remember which now.

Now I guess this a/c was probably operating out of Predannack but I don’t know this for certain.

My question to this forum is….how could I find out the serial number / squadron number / aircrew names relating to this crash?
As I said the smallholding is at Releath near Helston, Cornwall.

Thanks

Nick

For any of you that are interested, I have found out the identity of this a/c now:

11/04/1944 0805 hours de Havilland Mosquito FB Mark VI MM413 of 248 Squadron based at RAF Portreath while on an Anti-Aircraft patrol crashed into a cloud covered hill at Wheal Christopher Farm, Sithney, Helston. The Mosquito was burnt out and the crew of two were killed.

All credit to the RAF Davidstowmoor web site & its extensive crash history log

http://www.rafdavidstowmoor.org/pages/crash_log/crashlog44.htm

Hi Avro683

Sorry that farm doesn’t spring to mind -where exactly is it?

The small holding I mentioned is/was called Chy-an ‘something’

All the best

Nick

Does Copperhill Farm ring a bell with you, Nick?