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 Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 5:51 pm Post subject: Halifax Bomber LL505 crashed 22/Oct 1944 Coniston(Cumbria) |
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Just watched the Time team C4 prog (repeat ) and they were digging old mines on CONISTON in Cumbria and they mentioned finding an old leather Helmet on the Fell area possibly from the WW2 Halifax Bomber that crashed near that area of the Tarn etc . I did some research and found that there is a Memorial Cairn with the details of the crash and the 8 dead from that plane that date in 1944
CRASHED HALIFAX BOMBER LL505 from No 1659 H.C.U. Topcliffe on a training exercise on 22nd October 1944 . crash site SOUTH OF GREAT CARRS SUMMIT
Seven of the crew were from the ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE and they are buried in CHESTER (blacon) Cemetery Cheshire and the Eight airman was a Sgt in the ROYAL AIR FORCE VOL RESERVE and he is named as being
SGT WILLIAM BRISBANE FERGUSON , 1826294 aged 19 RAFVR
Memorial plaque records :
In Memory of 8 Crew Members of HALIFAX LL505 from No 1659 H C U Topcliffe who lost their lives on this site on 22 October 1944
- The plaque records all the 8 Named dead from that training flight from RAF Topcliffe in North Yorkshire .
CWGC index records :
FERGUSON , WILLIAM BRISBANE , Sgt Flt Engr 1826294, death date 22 October 1944 , aged 19 , RAFVR ,
Row D Grave 239
NEW MONKLAND CEMETERY Lanarkshire
son of Isaiah Ferguson & Stepson of Jemima Ferguson of CALDERCRUIX
Listed on the SNWM at the Edinburgh Castle is :
FERGUSON , WILLIAM BRISBANE , 1826294, death 22nd Oct 1944 , Birth place AIRDRIE , RAF , Sgt RAFVR. BC
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Nice to see on one of the websites that someone has placed a Poppy cross at the Cairn /memorial at the crash site on Coniston , in Cumbria
Patrick W Anderson |
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