No photographs were allowed during the church service. An official photographer was doing all this which were then for sale afterwards ? Never known that before. Apart from the cross plaque to Sgt John Wenham the rest I took at the village hall afterwards.
4 January 1945 11 OTU Wellington X HE470 Op. Training Took off at 1910 hours from Westcott for a training sortie but fifteen minutes later the aircraft dived out of cloud and crashed at Marston seven miles north north west of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Crew. F/S. M. Reece RNZAF + Sgt. I P H. Smith + F/S. A G. Bolger RNZAF + F/S. D W. McLennan RNZAF + Sgt. R B. Price + Sgt. J A. Wenham + Source - RAF Bomber Command Losses Vol.7 - W R. Chorley
The six NZ Airmen outside the village hall, the tall chap at the back is 6' 7''. It's their six caps on the table as shown. The above plaque has been there quite some time.
