Unidentified Sopwith F1 Camel at Beverley aerodrome.
At 07.45hrs on 31st August 1918 this No.72 Training Squadron aeroplane crashed on take off from Beverley aerodrome, with the reason simply stated as being an "error of judgement" on the pilot's casualty card. The pilot was seriously injured and died of his injuries a short time later that day in hospital. The inquest stated that after taking off it climbed to around eighty feet then made a turn to the left, it then dived into the ground with the engine running at full power. It was his first solo flight on the aeroplane type.
Pilot - 2Lt Frederick Royston Young RAF, aged 19. Buried Beverley (St.Mary) Church Cemetery, Yorkshire (T.31).
Frederick Young was born on 1st December 1898. As a young man he was worked as a chemists apprentice near Bournemouth from August 1915 to April 1917 and served in the 35th Training Reserve Battalion, Dorset Regiment. He later transferred to the RFC and was granted a commission in February 1918 to the rank of Temporary Second Lieut on probation. The RFC became the RAF in April 1918.
