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The Hampden Bomber crashed on to three houses in the road after the pilot lost control during an electrical storm. On the morning of 20 November 1940, as residents of Northrepps, near Cromer, began to wake, the village was shaken by the crash of an RAF bomber in woodland on the outskirts. Crash Location Whitley Mk-V Z-6851 and Handley Page Hampden AE 120 ZN. At the dedication service on Tuesday, prayers were offered to the crew and civilians who lost their lives. "I checked my collection and have the original photograph along with many more from 50 Squadron including their transition from Hawker Hind to HP Hampden. Turned back 70 miles short of the target with an overheating port engine.
Message 2 - Memories of air crashes in Lincolnshire Posted on: 13 January 2005 by John Benson.
At least one of the engines was recovered - see link #9. "My grandfather served in the RAF from 1936 until 1968 and was an expert in propulsion. He had flown out on F/Lt Powdrell injured, Sgt Horn injured, Sgt R.R.B.Durtnall & Sgt Clelland unhurt. On the land of D. van Winden an English Hampden-bomber had crashed. "It sums up the horrors of the war... what happened here was a very ordinary catastrophe for people on the home front," he said. The disaster happened near Boultham Baths in LincolnSign up to the Lincolnshire Live newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsThe grandson of a Second World War RAF technician has discovered how a fortunate coincidence saved his granddad from a fatal air crash 80 years ago.Pilot Officer Robert McAlister, Sergeant Walter Freestone, and aircraftsmen Norman Newsham and Frederick Greensill died after their out of control Handley Page Hampden Mark I crashed near Boultham Baths in Lincoln.The aircraft hit open ground between the swimming pool and the bowling green, about 30 yards from the old water works cottages and Boultham Technician Bill Marshall had flown out with the crew to Scotland but had to come back from to Lincolnshire by train the day before the crash because of family problem.Grandson Declan O'Flanagan, who lives in Bedfordshire, had believed his granddad had merely been waiting for Hampden L4082 to return to RAF Waddington until our recent article proved something of a revelation.Mr O'Flanagan told Lincolnshire Live: "I stumbled across your "I was attempting to maybe find an image of the aircraft.
I was stunned when I read your story surrounding the aircraft's demise and the loss of the brave young men who were on board. At the place where the plane crashed, German soldiers placed a wooden cross. How the world's oldest clove tree defied an empire He was the only airman to survive, but was presumed dead nine days later when another plane was lost during a raid.
Robert McAlister is commemorated on a prize cup awarded annually at the Bute Agricultural Show in Scotland, and Norman Newsham, who came from Derby, is buried locally in Waddington.When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. "They were from 50 Squadron based at RAF Waddington but they'd been flying back from RAF Evanton, in Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, in formation. "She'd lit the copper, done her washing and put it out to dry. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites Has China's housing bubble burst? Why Royal Ballet principal Sergei Polunin quit "There was another lady who saw it fly past the school and it got to the south end of Lincoln and came down at Boultham Baths. Technician Bill … The Handley Page Hampden was a British twin-engine medium bomber of the Royal Air Force serving in the Second World War. "I had a story in my head regarding the loss of L4082 but with very few details, just that Bill was ground crew awaiting the aircraft's return to RAF Waddington.
You can unsubscribe at any time.Four airmen were killed when their Hampden bomber crashed at Boultham Baths in Lincoln on March 20, 1939Bill Marshall with the aircraft. That cross mentioned in German that there on the date mentioned four English pilots had found the "Aviators death". But incredibly no-one apart from the crew was killed or even injured. Hampden: X3126: 61sqn: Hemswell: Airborne 0312hrs from Hemswell for Bremen. A 1940 Hampden Crash Remembered It was a tragedy that brought the death and destruction of the Second World War right to the heart of a quiet Norfolk village. "When they got to Lincoln the weather was really hazy and they got lost." Western Europe; Netherlands, the; Gelderland; Breedenbroek; Crashsites Armstrong Whitworth Whitley; Crashsites Handley Page Hampden; Second World War (1939-1945)
The plaque in East Hill, Dartford, remembers the three airmen and three residents who died on 31 July 1941. 2. Crashed 0736hrs some 500 yards from the Officers Mess at Hemswell, when both engines cut through lack of fuel. The Hampden Bomber crashed on to three houses in the road after the pilot lost control during an electrical storm. "As I read your article I scrolled down to see an image of my grandfather in front of L4082.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command losses of the Second World War 1942 Page 58. Peter. The device was on its way to a target in Germany when it was hit by German AA guns. 27 Sep 06 | "She said she saw the pilot waving out of the window as if he was telling her to get out of the way. A memorial to this crash was incised on a granite boulder it had a cross and … He added: "My mum met my father while they worked at RAF Scampton back in the 1960s.