Avro 504 D1980 at Doncaster aerodrome.
On 24th August 1918 this No.47 Training Depot Station aeroplane stalled while the pilot was attempting to avoid colliding with a building at Doncaster aerodrome. The pilot sustained head injuries and was admitted to hospital in Sheffield.
Pilot - 2Lt Charles William Clenshaw RAF. Injured.
He had married in Summer 1916 and had three sons and a daughter. His eldest son was Ian Charles Cooper Clenshaw, who would become an RAF pilot and is officially recorded as being the first Battle of Britain pilot to be killed. Another son, Charles William Clenshaw, was an English mathematician, specializing in numerical analysis. He is known for the Clenshaw algorithm and Clenshaw–Curtis quadrature.
Charles Clenshaw was born on 11th July 1891 and served as an officer in the Essex Regiment before transferring to the Royal Flying Corps in early 1918. When the RAF formed in April 1918 he transferred to them. He was posted to Doncaster and joined what was then No.49 Training Squadron on 24th April 1918, this unit later became No.47 TDS. After sustaining injuries on 24th August 1918 he was admitted to hospital but appears to have returned to 47 TDS on 12th September 1918 but was later readmitted to the same Sheffield hospital on 7th November 1918. He later received a posting to 46 Training Squadron on 13th January 1919 but in March 1919 was deemed "permanently unfit for further instruction in aviation" and probably returned to the Essex Regiment.