In the early morning of 10th November 1942 this Hudson took off from Silloth for a night cross country navigation exercise. For whatever reason the aircraft simply wasn't flying high enough and it struck the ground near to the top of Beda Fell at Beda Head overlooking Ullswater in the early hours of the morning.
Pilot - F/Sgt John Frederick Saunders RAFVR (1266497), aged 27, of London. Cremated Enfield, Middlesex.
Navigator - P/O Derric Isaac Jones RAFVR (120809), aged 22, of Carmarthen. Buried Carmarthen Cemetery, Carmarthenshire, Wales.
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Stanley Alfred Veasey RAFVR (1376462), aged 29, of Camberwell, London. Buried Camberwell New Cemetery, London.
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Harold Dickinson RAFVR (1056292), aged 26, of Leeds, Yorkshire. Buried Silloth Cemetery, Cumbria.
Sgt Dickinson's grave at Silloth Cemetery, Cumbria.
Derrick Jones received his commission on 4th April 1942 to the rank of P/O rising to F/O on 4th October 1942.
Will Lund and myself visited the site in July 2003. Not much remains today, only afew small peices of wreckage in the grass.