Enemy aircraft incident at Church Fenton airfield.
Believed to have been on 28th October 1940 Church Fenton airfield was attacked by an enemy aircraft and at least one person was injured. This information is drawn from the AIR81 file on the casualty. The Church Fenton station record book makes no mention of the incident. The injured person then died on 1st November 1940 in York (probably at the military hospital in Fulford).
AC2 Basil Thomas Mitchell RAFVR (922882), aged 19, of Weston on the Green. Died York (military hospital?) 1-11-1940. Buried Weston on the Green Churchyard, Oxfordshire.
The war diary for No.386 Search Light Battery, who were based in the Ripon area, recorded that at 18.07hrs on 27th October 1940 one hostile aircraft dropped bombs at Dishforth airfield from 5,000 feet and aAlso on 28th October 1940 that one Heinkel He.III overflew their Company Headquarters at 04.55hrs at 15,000 feet in a westerly direction. One of these aircraft may well have been the same one that attacked Church Fenton.