Sopwith 1F1 Camel B7340 near Beverley.
On 3rd April 1918 the pilot of this No.72 Training Squadron aeroplane lost control while on a flight in the Beverley area, the aeroplane went into a spin and it crashed killing the pilot. It may have fallen onto a railway line.
Pilot - 2Lt John Dudley Wollaston RAF, aged 19. Buried Sale Cemetery, Cheshire.
John Wollaston was born on 25th January 1899 and was the son of Thomas Roland and Annie Wollaston, of Dirleton House, Sale, Manchester. As a young man he worked as a mechanical draughtsman for his family firm in Manchester until April 1917. There is a gap before his Royal Flying Corps service appears to have started and he may have initially served in an army unit. He enlisted into the Royal Flying Corps around October 1917. On 1st January 1918 he was posted to No.41 Training Squadron at Doncaster and then to 72 Training Squadron on 26th January 1918. He appears to have been granted a commission on 13th December 1917. His brother Lt Keith Roland Wollaston died six months after his death.