Wellington MF 116, 14 January 1945, Burbage, Leics

We moved to this area a year ago and have passed this in the car regularly but yesterday was the first time we'd walked past. Was not expecting this - it's on a nondescript suburban street, next to a car park for the local shops.

 

Hi,

Here is a link to the service file of the 2 RCAF casualties -

https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin...ngs-d&pcat=39&fh=0&h=128181&recoff=&ml_rpos=1
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?

_phsrc=qqM3&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&indiv=1&dbid=9145&gsln=McMurdo&new=1&rank=1&uidh=efa&redir=false&gss=angs-d&pcat=39&fh=3&h=15624&recoff=&ml_rpos=4


The files are from the freely available ancestry.com database of all 44,000 Canadian WW2 casualties. The post accident RAF Court of Enquiry papers can be seen at numbered Page 203 in the Chobaniuk file.

Steve

 

Finally got around to following the links kindly provided by Steve/Tullybrone - fascinating stuff. I was amazed that, what seemed like, the whole of pilots service history was on there. It was very moving to read it all.

The accident report was also interesting. The RAF's not really my area so I hadn't seen one of these before - well worth reading.

 

I noticed that when I drove past the memorial at the weekend there were at least two poppy wreaths laid, so it's good that someone local is remembering them.

I omitted to add the crews names as text - for search engines - so here they are;

Flying Officer Nicholas CHOBANIUK, 25 RCAF
Sergeant Leslie George GOOD, 20, RAF
Sergeant John Sidney GUNN, 22, RAF
Sergeant John William McMURDO, 33, RCAF
Sergeant Charles Dennis PARKER, 19, RAF
Sergeant John THOMPSON, 23, RAF

(Any chance a passing Admin could edit the Thread title - put the wrong date in!)