On 30th August 1917 two No.46 Training Squadron, Royal Flying Corps aeroplanes were flying close to each other with a witness stating that one got into a position just in front of the other as if the one behind was attacking the front one. At around 250 feet above the ground they collided and became locked together. B.E.2e 7167 and B.E.12a A4020 fell into a field near Ellerton on Swale at 17.50hrs, just across the River Swale from where the pilots were based at Catterick, and both pilots were killed.
Pilot - Capt Arthur Vivian Burlton RFC, aged 22. Buried Catterick Cemetery, Yorkshire.
Arthur Burlton was the son of Lt.Col. Arthur Hyde Burlton and Marguerite Georgina Lucy Mary Burlton. He had initially served in the Army Service Corps before transferring to the Royal Flying Corps.