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Yorkshire Moors
Ryedale
1914 - 1918 1919 - 1939 1939 - 1945 1945 onwards Central Pennines / Yorkshire Dales English Lake District & Scotland
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This website contains information regarding the many aircraft accidents in Yorkshire, England and air-personnel losses within the county. My research is not limited to just the various aircraft crash locations but also to detail as fully as possible the human sides to these incidents. In many cases these airmen lost their lives and their stories have remained as pretty much the untold story. I hope that this website will let their sacrifice live on and in some way keep their memory alive. I have been researching these incidents for many years now and I hope that all my facts displayed on this website are correct; if any reader wishes to correct or expand any of the details shown please contact me and I would be glad to learn any new facts. If there is anyone reading this who recalls any of the incidents on this website or others I may have accidentally left out I would love to hear your memories and I will try to reply to your contact as soon as possible. I would also like to express my thanks to the families of airmen for contacting me, without the information and photographs they have been able to provide these pages would not be as complete. Thank you. The North Yorkshire Moors has been my main research area and the incidents detailed in that section reflect on many years of research. All images on this website remain under copyright of their owners and may not be copied from this website to make financial gain, or for use in any book / printed format without prior permission of the website owner, me, Richard Allenby, first. Copyright of all photographs of airmen shown on this website remain with the families of these airmen who have kindly contacted me. Please respect the families of airmen, they have been willing to donate these photos for inclusion in this website, for the same photo to appear elsewhere may cause un-necessary alarm. Please contact me if you wish to use any images on this website by clicking the EMAIL link. The website www.ni78.com has not done this and all my photographs have now been added to their website without contacting me. These pages are also in recognition of the work and independant research done by three gentleman over many years who are now no longer with us. The former 158 Squadron Association Chairman and squadron historian Mr Eddie Fell died in October 2009 after a long illness. Eddie's research crossed over with my Yorkshire research and he kindly shared some of his very detailed research which is displayed on a number of these webpages. It is a pleasure to ensure that some of his work is able to live on. In June 2010 Mr Brian Rapier died, his superb books "White Rose Base" and "Melbourne 10" are his more widely known achievements. His lesser known but perhaps more important activities were the fieldwork done in the 1960's and 1970's and the creation of the museum in York (though sadly now defunct). His name will surely be the one remembered for starting aviation research as we now know it in Yorkshire. In July 2012 air historian Mr Henk Welting died after a long illness, Henk assisted me in identifying many of the fatalities for many of the non-Bomber Command units covered in these pages. His postings on Ross McNeill's RAFCommands.com forum will surely help many people for years to come.
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Member of the ACIA research group based focusing on Northern England and Southern Scotland.
