Lancaster ED830 at Little Ouseburn, Boroughbridge.
On the night of 4th / 5th May 1943 101 Squadron supplied a number of aircraft and crews for a bombing raid on Dortmund, they lost six Lancasters on this night with twenty airmen either being killed or listed as missing. A number of the 101 Squadron aircraft crash landed in Yorkshire on the return to England. Lancaster ED830 was one of these aircraft, it took off from Holme on Spalding Moor airfield at 22.00hrs. On the return the weather around Holme on Spalding Moor was poor so the crew were diverted north to land at Linton on Ouse but this area was also fog bound. The fuel inside this aircraft must have been running low because both port engines had stopped with the pilot having then flown for forty minutes on the two starboard engines. The aircraft attempted a landing on seeing a searchlight (which turned out to be an anti-aircraft unit and not the lights of Linton on Ouse) but the aircraft flew through power lines and trees to crash near Little Ouseburn at 04.30hrs. The rear gunner was injured and was admitted to hospital. The full identities of this crew have yet to be learned.
Lancaster ED830 was built to contract B.69274/40 by A.V.Roe and Co Ltd. at Chadderton and was taken on charge by 101 Squadron at Holme on Spalding Moor on 20th April 1943. As a result of the crash at Boroughbridge on 5th May 1943 Cat.E2/FB damage was the damage assessment and it was struck off charge on 24th May 1943. The aircraft logged just twenty hours flying from new.
Pilot - Sgt Frank P Smith RAAF (412380? no).
Flight Engineer - Sgt "Jack N Ingram" (probably Sgt John Herbert Ingram RAFVR (900574)).
Navigator - Sgt Donald Hanslow RAFVR (657187).
Bomb Aimer - Sgt B John Studd RAF.
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Jack E Dix.
Air Gunner - Sgt Ron R McCord.
Air Gunner - Sgt Frederick Harold Quick RAFVR (1320399). Back injuries.
John Studd would complete 24 operational flights with 101 Squadron before receiving a posting to 35 Squadron to fly a second tour.
Donald Hanslow was awarded the DFM for service with 101 Squadron, Gazetted on 10th December 1943. He received a commission on 1st November 1943 to the rank of P/O on probation (emergency)(161013) and was promoted to F/O (war subs) on 1st May 1944 and later to F/Lt (war subs) on 1st November 1945. He remained in the RAFVR until relinquishing his commission of F/O on 27th June 1958.
If the flight engineer Sgt Ingram listed above was indeed John Herbert Ingram then he received a commission to the rank of P/O on probation on 31st October 1943 (160955) and rose to F/O (war subs) on 31st April 1944. By June 1944 he was flying with 49 Squadron, on 22nd June 1944 he was killed flying in Lancaster ME808 on Ops to Wesseling and is buried in Schoonselhof Cemetery, Belgium. He was twenty nine years old and the son of Walter Vivian and Catherine Beatrice Ingram, of Greenford, Middlesex.
Harry Quick recovered from his injuries and received a commission on 3rd December 1943 to the rank of P/O on probation (162609). He completed his tour with 101 Squadron acting as a spare air gunner, he was awarded the DFC for service with 101 Squadron, Gazetted on 15th February 1944. He was later promoted to the rank of F/O on 3rd May 1944 and then to F/Lt (war subs) on 3rd December 1945. He later flew a second tour with 550 Squadron and married John Studd's sister.