The late Baroness Thatcher

She was the best General I ever worked for…

Lancaster ND861 PM-H

Hello David,
Small world (but I wouldn’t like to paint it!) I have done a lot of investigation around the loss of this aircraft….Chris Weight was my wife’s uncle! We seem to be related by Chris and his brother Tom.
I have a little on the other crew members but have only managed to contact one a relative of Chris’s navigator Henry Backway. The crew of a Lanc was 7 and so one is missing from the crew photo – do you have this? I suspect that it is the Flt Eng. I also have copies of various documents and photos of Chris sent to his brother.
It would be great to discuss this sometime as I have done a lot of investigating the circumstances around this crash. Are you Gordon’s son please?
Sorry for all the questions – quite exciting as I have made only slow progress over the years…

Regards,

Dave.