Avro 504 B8691 at Doncaster aerodrome.
During the evening of 20th August 1918 this No.47 Training Depot Station aeroplane was being flown at 75 feet over Doncaster aerodrome, where it was based, when the pilot attempted to climb over the sheds and also make a flat turn. He lost control and it dived into the ground at 19.15hrs. A fire broke out and the pilot was killed.
Pilot (pupil) - Lt James Benjamin Wallace Wolstenholme RAF, aged 23. Buried Willesden New Cemetery, Middlesex.
James "Wallace" Wolstenholme was born on 25th March 1895 and was from Cricklewood, London and attended Westminster School. He appears to have initially served in the 16th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment, then the 28th Battalion, London Regiment as a Private and was part of the BEF that went to France on 26th October 1914. He later received a commission in the Army Service Corps. He enlisted for Royal Flying Corps service around the beginning of 1918 then transferred to the RAF when it formed on 1st April 1918. He was posted to No.49 Training Squadron on 24th April 1918 and then to No.47 Training Depot Station on 29th July 1918.