Yorkshire Air Casualties - 1950 to 1959.

Below is believed to be a complete list of all air fatalities between 1950 and 1959 and links to the incident in which the casualties sadly lost their lives. There has never been a list of flying accidents made for the whole Yorkshire region and I doubt that I have listed them all despite my best efforts. I would welcome information or basic details to begin to research the incident myself.


12th January 1950 - Hornet PX351 - Linton on Ouse airfield

Pilot - P.2 John Hampton RAF (3020775), aged 23. Buried Newton on Ouse Churchyard, Yorkshire.


2nd February 1950 - Meteor VW788 - Burton Agnes

Pilot - P.3 Colin John Walker RAF (2238689), aged 20. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.


8th March 1950 - Vampire VF276 - Driffield airfield

Pilot - P.4 Peter James Martin RAF (3110222), aged 20. Buried Odiham General Cemetery, Hampshire.


26th April 1950 - Meteor VW440 - Carnaby airfield

Pilot - P.4 Donald Edwin Steven Newport RAF (3038413), aged 24. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.


14th May 1950 - Meteor VW267 - Todwick

Pilot - S/Ldr Raymond Hiley Harries DSO & Bar, DFC & 2 Bars RAF (87447), aged 34. Buried Newton on Ouse Churchyard, Yorkshire.


24th June 1950 - Proctor G-AJCU - Tosside

Pilot - Mr Douglas Barker Crabtree, aged 35. Ashes scattered at sea.

Passenger - Mr Edward Hornby, aged 73, of Gilmour Street, Thornaby on Tees. Burial location.

Passenger - Mrs Una Hornby, aged 52, of Gilmour Street, Thornaby on Tees. Burial location.

Passenger - Mrs Phyllis Bell, aged 34, of Hartington Road, Stockton on Tees. Burial location.


17th August 1950 - Meteor RA422 - Carnaby

Pilot - P.4 Peter Brian Punter RAF (579975), aged 22. Buried General Cemetery, Luton, Bedfordshire.


28th September 1950 - Meteor VW292 - Little Driffield

Pilot - F/Lt John Joseph Doyle RAF (135735), aged 28. Buried Yewtree Cemetery, Liverpool.


13th October 1950 - Vampire VZ300 - Skipsea

Pilot - F/O Denis McAfee RAF (607022), aged 22. Buried Leconfield Churchyard, Yorkshire.


17th October 1950 - Vampire VF270 - Kirkburn

Pilot - Sgt Reginald Marshall Willis RAF (574707), aged 27. Buried Ferryhill Cemetery, Durham.


17th October 1950 - Vampire VF308 - Kirkburn

Pilot - P/O Iain Main Crawford RAF (3123698), aged 22. Buried Rutherglen Cemetery, Glasgow.


27th October 1950 - Vampire VZ348 - Langtoft

Pilot - F/O Alan Morgan Bassett RAF (2600214), aged 22. Buried Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Sunderland (24.CC.275).


30th November 1950 - Meteor EE599 - Eston Hills

Pilot - Sgt Thomas Henry St.John Seabrook RAF (3507650), aged 24. Buried Darlington Western Cemetery, Co.Durham.


11th December 1950 - Martinet JN670 - Arram

Pilot - F/Sgt Philip Harold Draper RAF (936710), aged 29. Buried Leconfield Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Drogue Operator - LAC Denis Salter RAF (2299998), aged 22. Buried Hull Northern Cemetery, Yorkshire (Comp.196.43).


20th January 1951 - Vampire TG295 - Cundall

Pilot - P/O Arnold Norris Osborn Gulliver RAF (3039282). Aged 23. Buried Greenford Park Cemetery, London.


25th January 1951 - Meteor VW255 - Croft on Tees

Pilot - F/O Arthur Adair McKernan RAF (3504720). Aged 24. Buried Dundonald Cemetery, Belfast.


5th April 1951 - Vampire WA371 - Kilham

Pilot - P/O Robin Tennent MacMullen RAF (607117). Aged 21. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.


17th April 1951 - Meteor VZ527 - Linton on Ouse airfield

Pilot - Sgt Matonia Bohdan Schnitzler RAF (788521). Aged 26. Buried Newton on Ouse Churchyard, Yorkshire.


6th May 1951 - Meteor WA933 - New Earswick

Pilot - Sgt Kenneth John Hodgson RAF (577966), aged 26. Buried Queenstown Cemetery, Blackpool, Lancashire.


29th May 1951 - Meteor WA604 - Exelby

Pilot - S/Ldr Michael John Gloster DFC and Bar RAF (65559). Aged 30. Died of injuries 20th June 1951. Buried Solihull (St.Alphege?) Parish Churchyard, Birmingham.

Pilot - F/Sgt Harold Uppard RAF (551631). Aged 30. Buried High Heaton Cemetery, Newcastle.


19th June 1951 - Meteor VT239 - Chapel le Dale

Pilot - P/O Gerald Leslie Reeve RAF (3119556), aged 20. Buried Darlington Western Cemetery, Co.Durham.


20th June 1951 - Meteor WA877 - Scalby

Pilot - Sgt John Anstee Martin RAF (3504636), aged 21. Buried Newton on Ouse Churchyard, Yorkshire.


29th June 1951 - Wellington MF633 - Kiveton Park

Pilot - F/O Thomas Andrew Blair Bond RAF (501122). Aged 23. Buried Belfast Cemetery, Northern Ireland.

Navigator - F/O Ryland Leonard Luffman DFM RAF (169399). Aged 25. Buried North Cemetery, Bournemouth, Dorset.

Air Signaller - Sgt Bernard Leslie Curson RAF (3106760). Aged 22. Buried Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey (214531).


10th July 1951 - Meteor VZ418 - Clapham

Pilot - P/O John Valentine RAF (4039629), aged 25. Buried Methilmill Cemetery, Buckhaven, Fife.


18th July 1951 - Vampire VF303 - Burton Fleming

Pilot - F/O Kenneth George Carlton RAF (186498). Aged 28. Buried Parish Church, Willesborough, Kent (O/335).


13th August 1951 - Wellington PG367 - Hudswell

Pilot - F/O Peter Frederick Keeling RAF (582152), aged 22. Buried Leeming Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Navigator - F/O George Michael Trotman RAF (1606829), aged 27. Buried Painswick, Glocestershire.

Navigator - F/Lt John Alan Quinton RAF GC DFC (115714), aged 30. Buried Leeming Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Navigator - P/O Frank Leslie Farrell RAF (582254), aged 22. Buried Hessle Cemetery, Hull.

Navigator - P/O Edwin George Percival Garratt RAF (2436405), aged 20. Buried Leeming Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Navigator - F/O Dawyck George McLeod Veitch R(Aux)AF (178711), aged 37. Buried Wilford Hill Cemetery, Nottingham.


13th August 1951 - Martinet NR570 - Hudswell

Pilot - F/Lt Alexander Hannay RAF (120473), aged 32. Buried Kirkcoln Cemetery, Stranraer.

Passenger - Cpl Malcolm Bruton ATC, aged 16. Buried Acklam Cemetery, Middlesbrough.


23rd August 1951 - Meteor WA843 - Warley Cross

Pilot - Sgt Stanley John Albert Stewart RAF (3039843). Aged 23. Buried Newton on Ouse Churchyard, Yorkshire.


9th September 1951 - Vampire VT863 - Hutton Rudby

Pilot - Sgt Harry Darragh Mincher RAF (2686168), aged 28. Buried Darlington West Cemetery, Durham.


15th September 1951 - Harvard FX428 - Thornaby airfield

Pilot - Sgt George William Kelley RAF (1386489), aged 28. Buried Thornaby Cemetery, Yorkshire.


5th October 1951 - Meteor VW301 - Bempton Cliffs

Pilot - P/O Donald William Quinton RAF (3503138). Aged 22. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.


5th October 1951 - Meteor VT307 - Bempton Cliffs

Pilot - F/Lt Juliaan Arnold Marten Prast RNAF, aged 26. Burial location unknown.


18th October 1951 - Mosquito RL230 - Kirby Wiske

Pilot - F/Lt Michael Antony Furse Woodley RAF (2600022). Aged 22. Cremated Kent County Crematorium.

Navigator - P/O Alan John Priestley Hart RAF (4036278). Aged 20. Buried Newton on Ouse Churchyard, Yorkshire.


14th November 1951 - Mosquito Rl184 - Morton on Swale

Pilot - P/O Geoffrey Peacock RAF (582323). Aged 22. Cremated Sheffield Crematorium, Yorkshire.

Navigator - P/O Gordon James Mason RAF (4001591). Aged 23. Buried Elswick Cemetery, Newcastle.


26th November 1951 - Lincoln RF500 - Leconfield

Passenger - J/Tech Robert Taylor RAF (584922), aged 20. Buried Carlisle General Cemetery, Cumbria.

Passenger - LAC Roy Edward Skeldon RAF (2500676), aged 21. Buried Woodhouse Cemetery, Leeds, Yorkshire.


30th November 1951 - Meteor WF767 - Southburn

Instructor Pilot - F/Lt Peter Craig Buchanan RAF (181707). Aged 30. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Pupil Pilot - P/O John Eversleigh Kendrick RAF (582771). Aged 22. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.


20th December 1951 - Meteor VW304 - Driffield airfield

Pilot - P/O Alan Smith RAF (583767), aged 21. Buried Rose Hill Cemetery, Doncaster, Yorkshire.


7th January 1952 - Meteor WA759 - Linton on Ouse

Pilot - F/O Charles Shurman RAFVR (2600255), aged 23. Buried Newton on Ouse Churchyard, Yorkshire.


10th January 1952 - Meteor WE854 - Church Fenton airfield

Ground Staff - AC1 Robert Marshall RAF (4004410), aged 23. Buried Kirkby Wharfe Cemetery, Yorkshire.


20th January 1952 - Meteor WE868 - Myton on Swale

Pilot - Sgt Jack Richard Richmond RAF (579113), aged 25. Buried Pateley Bridge Cemetery, Yorkshire.


21st January 1952 - Meteor WG975 - Over Dinsdale

Pilot - P/O Vernon Reginald Heather RAF (2495927), aged 21. Buried Hayes Cemetery, Middlesex.


29th February 1952 - Meteor WH342 - York

Pilot - F/O John Spiers Paterson RAF (3054087), aged 25. Buried Burntwood Churchyard, Staffordshire.


4th March 1952 - Meteor VT326 - Settrington

Pilot - P/O Peter Barton Brown RAF (2492698), aged 20. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.


16th April 1952 - Meteor WG986 - Fangfoss

Pilot - F/Lt Howell William Thomas Enoch DFC RAF (152141), aged 30. Buried Fangfoss Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Pilot - P/O David Arthur Joyce RAF (3507983), aged 19. Buried Fangfoss Churchyard, Yorkshire.


29th April 1952 - Meteor EE417 - Swanland

Pilot - P/O John Malcolm Watson RAF (582669), aged 22. Buried Longstanton Churchyard, Cambridgeshire.


13th May 1952 - Meteor WH167 - Fangfoss

Pilot - P/O Arthur Henry Miller RAF (2495703), aged 21. Buried Fangfoss Churchyard, Yorkshire.


16th May 1952 - Oxford AT670 - South Cave

Pilot - Acting P/O George Anthony Alexander Jackson RAF (1517614), aged 19. Buried St.Johns Church, Wetherby Road, Roundhay, Leeds.


21st May 1952 - Meteor VT176 - Little Driffield.

Pilot - P/O Hugh Rose RAF (3129830), aged 20. Buried Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh.


17th June 1952 - Meteor VT344 - Hutton Cranswick

Pilot - Capt Mohamed Abdul Rahim al-Ani. Iraqi Air Force. Aged 28. Buried location unknown.


20th June 1952 - Oxford HM961 - Holme on Spalding Moor airfield

Pilot - Acting P/O Alan Wilson RAF (3133674), aged 21. Cremated Sunderland.


16th July 1952 - Meteor WH130 - Ottringham

Pilot - F/Sgt Dennis Edward John Chalkley DFC RAF (1600121), aged 29. Buried Roffey Cemetery, Horsham, Surrey.


20th July 1952 - Meteor WD716 - Saltwick Bay

Pilot - P/O Brian Hamilton RAF (3129683), aged 20. Buried Leeming Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Navigator / Radar Operator - Sgt Desmond Reginald Sturgess RAF (3504412), aged 21. Missing.


31st July 1952 - Oxford EB746 - South Cliffe

Pilot - Acting P/O David Walter Nodder RAF (2527525), aged 19. Cremated Scholemoor Crematorium, Bradford, Yorkshire.


7th August 1952 - Meteor WF793 - Leyburn

Pilot - Master Pilot Jan Pawlikowski RAF (792811), aged 38. Buried Leeming Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Pilot - P/O Stanley Edwin Hunt RAF (3111951), aged 23. Buried Aldershot Cemetery, Hampshire.


11th August 1952 - Meteor RA376 - Letwell

Pilot - P/O John Sim Kidd RAF (2502528), aged 20. Cremated Dundee.


9th September 1952 - Meteor WA822 - Coxwold

Pilot - P/O Colin Petty RAF (578727), aged 26. Buried Newton on Ouse Churchyard, Yorkshire.


16th September 1952 - Meteor VT127 - Carnaby airfield

Pilot - F/O Antony John Aubrey Ellwood RAF (150442), aged 29. Buried St Martin's Churchyard, North Perrott, Somerset.

Civilian - Mr Mark A H Harrison, aged 37. Buried Market Weighton Cemetery, Yorkshire.


29th September 1952 - Meteor WH472 - Swainby

Pilot - P/O Alan Edward Aggett RAF (579702), aged 24. Buried St Andrews Churchyard, Newton Abbott, Devon.


22nd October 1952 - Meteor VT224 - Blaxton

Pilot - P/O Ray William Tait RAF (3510192), aged 19. Buried St.Katherines Churchyard, Merstham, Surrey.


27th October 1952 - Meteor VW268 - Laskill

Pilot - P/O John Michael Dill RAF (2521918), aged 19. Buried Southern Cemetery, Manchester.


21st November 1952 - Meteor VZ428 - Whitton Island

Pilot - S/Ldr Ernest Edge RAF (49634), aged 33. Buried Finningley Churchyard, Yorkshire.


12th December 1952 - Meteor WF774 - Linton on Ouse airfield

Pilot - Sgt David Arthur White RAF (2433680), aged 21. Buried Witchampton Churchyard, Dorset.

Pilot - P/O Richard Bowman Tomlinson RAF (2494712), aged 23. Buried Skelton and Brotton Cemetery, Yorkshire.


12th December 1952 - Meteor WH234 - Low Worsall

Pilot - P/O David Archibald Cox RAF (4073897), aged 21. Buried Caputh Kirkyard, Perth.


2nd January 1953 - Meteor WL365 - Cotherstone

Pilot - P/O Ronald Edward Thorneycroft Bowater RAF (2530440), aged 19. Cremated Golders Green Crematorium, London.


7th January 1953 - Lincoln RF448 - Lindholme airfield

Civilian - Mrs Margaret Whittaker. Aged 46. Of Ednaston Lodge, Brailsford. Derbyshire. Buried Shirley Churchyard, Derbyshire.


22nd February 1953 - Vampire VV604 - Markington

Pilot - Sgt Arthur Rodgers RAF(Aux) (2688634), aged 29. Cremated Manchester Southern Cemetery.


13th April 1953 - Meteor WH347 - Old Ellerby

Pilot - F/O Ian Tacchi RAF (3124174), aged 21. Buried Leconfield Churchyard, Yorkshire.


4th May 1953 - Meteor WH246 - Great Smeaton

Pilot - F/O Kenneth Belton Bones RAF (607192), aged 22. Buried West Cemetery, Darlington.

Pilot - F/Lt Anthony Turner RAF (579941), aged 24. Buried West Cemetery, Darlington.


13th June 1953 - Meteor WM258 - Eston Hills

Pilot - S/Ldr James Lomas DFC, AFC and Bar RAF (47118), aged 34. Buried Thornaby Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Navigator / Radar Operator - F/Lt Bernard Noel Hanratty RAF (1903506), aged 30. Buried York Cemetery.


27th June 1953 - Chipmunk WD326 - Malham Tarn

Pilot - F/O Kenneth Bernard Vallance RAFVR (187365), aged 35. Cremated Anfield, Liverpool.

Pilot - F/O Frank Reddish RAFVR (205818), aged 27. Burial location unknown.


21st July 1953 - Meteor VT138 - Arnagill Moor, Masham

Pilot - P/O Denis Arthur Sharp RAF (2542237), aged 23. Burial location unknown.


22nd July 1953 - Chipmunk WD350 - Birkin

Pilot - F/Lt Maurice Peter Davies RAF (119872), aged 33. Buried Kirkby Wharfe Cemetery, Yorkshire.


18th August 1953 - Meteor WE964 - Filey

Pilot - F/O Roy Leslie Deeley RAF (4040933), aged 27. Buried Newton on Ouse Churchyard, Yorkshire.


4th September 1953 - Meteor WA778 - Filey

Pilot - P/O Brian Watton RAF (3134158), aged 23. Burial location unknown (probably Southampton).


29th December 1953 - Meteor WH197 - Austerfield

Pilot - P/O Peter Edward Jones RAF (2557800), aged 23. Buried Finningley Churchyard, Yorkshire.


19th January 1954 - Meteor WA632 - Fangfoss

Pilot - P/O Peter Bryan Jackson RAF (2547969), aged 19. Buried Fangfoss Churchyard, Yorkshire.


21st February 1954 - Vampire WA404 - Old Lackenby

Pilot - P/O Ronald Webster RAF(AAF) (3135026), aged 24. Buried Brotton Cemetery, Yorkshire.


23rd March 1954 - Provost WV539 - Carlton, Selby

Pilot (Instructor) - Sgt John Charles Mottram DFM RAF (3040099), aged 28. Buried Abbey Lane Cemetery, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

Pilot (Pupil) - Upper Yardman Richard Vernon Emery RN (SMX.769544), aged 25. Buried Chelmsford Cemetery, Essex.


12th April 1954 - Meteor EE525 - Fraisthorpe

Pilot - P/O Arthur Frederick Faulkner RAF (582270), aged 25. Buried Sittingbourne Cemetery, Kent.


24th June 1954 - Canberra WH639 - Balby / Warmsworth

Pilot - G/Cpt Richard Thomas Fairfax Gates DFC AFC RAF (37064), aged 40. Cremated Golders Green Crematorium, London.

Navigator - F/Lt Peter Oliver RAF (177340), aged 32. Cremated Cheltenham Crematorium, Gloucestershire.


28th June 1954 - Meteor WH239 - Scorton

Pilot - P/O David Bartholomew Brown RAF (4106247), aged 19. Cremated Coventry Crematorium.


30th July 1954 - Meteor (ID unknown) - Driffield airfield

Groundcrew - LAC Ronald Cox RAF (4139942), aged 18. Buried Camberwell New Cemetery, London.


9th August 1954 - Meteor WK936 - Wombleton

Pilot - F/O Terence Alfred Smith RAF (4080170), aged 21. Buried St Mary's RC Cemetery, Harrow Road, London (grave 1928).


27th August 1954 - Meteor WH190 - Muston

Pilot - P/O Edmund Peter Aston RAF (3515081), aged 23. Buried High Hoyland Churchyard, Yorkshire.


11th September 1954 - Meteor WL343 - Girsby

Pilot - P/O John Cartner RAF (2600699), aged 24. Buried Haverigg Cemetery, Millom, Cumbria.


20th September 1954 - Meteor RA365 - Driffield

Pilot - P/O William Frederick Douglas RAF (2607894), aged 23. Buried St.Andrews Cemetery, Fife.


21st September 1954 - Sabre XD733 - Kilburn

Pilot - F/O Colin Arthur Grabham RAF (4047162), aged 23. Buried Shepherdswell Churchyard, Kent.


15th October 1954 - Meteor WK679 - Church Fenton airfield

Pilot - F/O John William Holland RAF (2528537), aged 21. Burial location unknown.


15th November 1954 - Meteor VT232 - Girsby

Pilot - P/O Richard Anthony Collingwood RAF (4113900), aged 20. Burial location unknown.


14th December 1954 - Sabre 19234 - Holme Moss

Pilot - F/O Patrick Vernon Robinson RCAF (32380), aged 27, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Buried North Luffenham Churchyard, Rutland.


15th December 1954 - Meteor VW419 - Kirkburn

Instructor Pilot - F/Lt Alan George Whitbread RAF (167908), aged 30. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Pupil Pilot - F/O John Michael Harrison RAF (2600617), aged 22. Buried Denton Cemetery, Manchester.


21st December 1954 - Meteor WK723 - Drewton

Pilot - F/O Frank Maxwell RAF (2539891), aged 21. Buried Romford Cemetery, London.


21st December 1954 - Meteor WB108 - Treeton

Pilot - P/O Douglas Gibson Edwards RAF (4083109), aged 22. Buried Worksop (Retford Road) Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.


11th January 1955 - Meteor WF783 - Biggin

Pilot - F/Lt Malcolm John Woodyer RAF (57563), aged 29. Buried Hendon Cemetery, Middlesex.

Pilot - F/Lt Gordon Ewart Fisher RAF (4084670), aged 22. Cremated County Crematorium, Charing, Kent.


1st February 1955 - Meteor VT115 - North Cowton

Pilot - P/O Michael John Turner RAF (2567127), aged 20. Buried Darlington West Cemetery, Durham.


16th March 1955 - Sabre XD755 - Kirkburn

Pilot - F/O Harry Armstrong RAF (3021044), aged 29. Buried Canonbie Churchyard, Dumfrieshire.


23rd March 1955 - Meteor WD650 - Healey

Pilot - P/O Peter Frederick Barrow-Bentley RAF (1812385), aged 29. Buried St Swithuns Cemetery, Lincoln (grave 113).

Navigator - F/O Anthony Arthur Burrows RAF (4110353), aged 21. Buried London Road Cemetery, Kettering, Northamptonshire (grave 5315).


15th June 1955 - Meteor VT263 - Cayton

Pilot - P/O Jorn Dietmar Walz RAF (2713560), aged 20. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.


15th August 1955 - Meteor WK982 - Barmston

Pilot - F/O Graham John Brand RAF (584309), aged 24. Buried Leconfield Churchyard, Yorkshire.


15th August 1955 - Meteor WH395 - Lissett

Pilot - F/Lt Roy Smith RAF (3031891), aged 30. Buried Leconfield Churchyard, Yorkshire.


27th August 1955 - Meteor WH249 - Whorlton Moor, NYM

Pilot - F/O Peter Charles Kenrick RAF (2224186), aged 28. Buried Kirkby Wharfe Cemetery, Yorkshire.


13th September 1955 - Hastings TG584 - North Stainley

Pilot - S/Ldr Roy Cox DFC RAF (166341), aged 30. Cremated. Interment location unknown.

Flight Engineer - F/Lt Ronald Rooney DFM RAF (54798), aged 34. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Signaller - F/Sgt Eric Vardy Levesley RAF (1682012), aged 33. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Navigator - Sgt Philip Arthur Peckham RAF (4037259), aged 24. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Passenger? - F/O Bernard Christopher Godwin RAF (2469724), aged 23. Buried St.Leonards Churchyard, Heston, Middlesex.


9th December 1955 - F.84F Thunderstreak 52-6692 - Ranmoor

Civilian - Mrs Elsie Bamford Murdoch, aged 45. Buried Crookes Cemetery, Sheffield, South Yorkshire (JJ/5688).


6th April 1956 - Vampire WA104 - High Worsall

Pilot - P/O Kenneth Charles Stuart Dight RAF (4158229), aged 19. Buried West Cemetery, Darlington, Durham.


22nd April 1956 - Meteor WE895 - Chapel Haddlesey

Pilot - F/Lt William Sandeman Campbell RAF (1568523), aged 33. Cremated Lawnswood Cemetery, Leeds, Yorkshire.


3rd May 1956 - Venom WL848 - Driffield

Pilot - F/O John Murray Wells Galloway RAF (2608057), aged 24. Cremated Hounslow Road Crematorium, Feltham, Middlesex.

Navigator - Sgt Colin Vere Reice RAF (4041425), aged 24. Buried Bushbury Churchyard, Wolverhampton.


11th October 1956 - Venom WR785 - Kirkburn

Pilot - F/O John Northen RAF (4144172), aged 23. Buried Stainby Churchyard, Grantham, Lincolnshire.

Navigator - F/O Eric Curry RAF (4135586), aged 22. Buried Haugh Road Cemetery, Rawmarsh, Yorkshire.


12th April 1957 - Chipmunk WK582 - Harewood House

Pilot - Cadet Pilot David Ernest Young RAF (2608546), aged 20. Buried Camberwell New Cemetery, London.


12th April 1957 - Meteor WL410 - Leconfield

Pilot - F/Lt John Cecil Ewens RAF (4043990), aged 25. Buried Leconfield Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Passenger - LAC Brian James Freeman RAF (4186847), aged 19. Buried Leconfield Churchyard, Yorkshire.


7th August 1957 - Vampire XE866 - Stanage Edge, Peak District

Pilot - (Instructor) - F/O Philip Redvers Jones RAF (4091376), aged 23. Buried Great Ness Churchyard, Shropshire.

Pilot (Pupil) - F/O Derek John Brett RAF (4039420), aged 26. Buried Worskop Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.


27th August 1957 - Dakota KN649 - Minskip

Pilot - F/Lt Graham Arthur John Wood DFC AFC RAF (150096), aged 34. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Assessor / Pilot - Master Pilot George Albert Marshall Ratcliffe RAF (1214071), aged 34. Buried Leeds General Cemetery (Woodhouse Cemetery), Yorkshire (3569).

Navigator - F/Lt Norman Franklyn Green RAF (199018), aged 34. Buried Highcliffe on Sea Churchyard, Hampshire.


4th March 1958 - Meteor WS700 - Cawood.

Pilot - F/Lt Ronald Petersen RAF (503329), aged 30. Cremated Lawnswood Crematorium, Leeds.

Navigator - F/Lt John Kenneth McLean RAF (3507127), aged 26. Buried Douglas Borough Cemetery, Isle of Man.


9th March 1959 - Vampire XE854 - Rawmarsh

Pilot - Midshipman Ian Ferguson Wilson RN, aged 19. Cremated Sheffield Crematorium.


15th July 1959 - Meteor WL480 - Leconfield airfield

Pilot - AVM John Robert Andre Embling CBE DSO RAF (36035), aged 46. Buried Leconfield Churchyard, Yorkshire.


30th December 1959 - Vampire XE830 - Nun Monkton

Pilot - Lt Myles Hastings Atkins RN, aged 22. Buried City of London Crematorium, London (Manor Park).


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