Blackburn B2 G-ACBI at Brough Haven.
On 30th July 1937 this aircraft was being flown on a training flight around the general Brough area when it crashed on the river bank at Brough Haven, Brough. The aircraft appears to have been owned and operated by the Blackburn Aircraft Ltd who were also at Brough. As a result the aircraft was a civilian registered aircraft, being first registered on 9th December 1936.
Pilot - Pupil Pilot Edward Owen Thomas James Poyner, aged 21, of Bridgnorth, Shropshire. Buried Bridgnorth Churchyard, Shropshire.
Edward Poyner's grandfather was James Poyner, a blacksmith of Posenhall Smithy, Benthall. His father Edward (snr) served five years of an apprenticeship with his father James but moved to Bridgnorth to find work when trade declined at Posenhall. He married Alice May Griffin Bate in Shrewsbury and they lived at Bridgnorth, then at Oldbury. They had one child, Edward Owen Thomas Poyner who was born on 15th January, 1916. Edward (snr) enlisted for Army service in WW1 at Ironbridge. He was serving with the 14th Battalion Welsh Regiment and went to France in June 1917 but was killed in action on 2nd August 1917. He is buried ay Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium.