On 26th June 1942 this aircraft crash-landed at Thornaby airfield after being damaged by
enemy action. No further details are known. It was repaired and flew again. The names below
require checking to confirm spellings and service numbers.
Pilot - P/O H W B Wright, slightly injured.
"Pilot" - F/O Barwood, uninjured.
WOp/AG - "P/O Feere", uninjured.
WOp/AG - F/Sgt J F Walker, slightly injured.
It is likely that the "F/O Barwood" as named above was infact one F/Lt Antony "Tony" J Barwood MRCS, LRCP RAFVR (60981), who
received his commission to F/O on 7th February 1941 in the RAF Medical Branch and rose to F/Lt exactly a year later.
It is known that he was serving with 220 Squadron at the time of this incident and given that 6 (c)OTU were a training unit
which fed Coastal Command squadrons such as 220 Squadron he may well have been with this unit briefly. He was a medical
officer. He rose to Group Captain and died 30th August 2008. There is plenty on the internet about his life and airforce career.