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
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