Anson N4919 at Wolfhole Crag, Forest of Bowland.
On 9th February 1944 the crew of this No.2 (O)A.F.U. aircraft were undertaking a cross country training flight when the aircraft flew through weather that caused the aircraft to ice up. Loosing height the pilot made a forced landing on Wolfhole Crag, in the Forest of Bowland and all on board survived. The summit ridge of this hill forms the old Yorkshire / Lancashire boundary with the aircraft crashing on the Yorkshire side. Nothing else is currently known about this incident.
Pilot - F/Sgt Albert Dobson RAFVR (1535302). Injured.
Navigator - Sgt Peter George Robert Edwards RAFVR (1397448). Injured.
Navigator - Sgt John Cyril Enoch RAFVR (1162509). Injured.
Two further crew - Names unknown.
Peter Edwards was born in 1923 in London. He would receive a commission in the RAF in September 1944 and served until at least 1948. He appears to have married in Carlisle in 1949.
Wolfhole Crag is the hill in the distance and this view shows the Yorkshire side.
I visited the Anson crash site in July 2010 with air historian Alan Hudson in pouring rain and what developed into a strong wind. Photographs were limited to the largest of the remaining wreckage.
John Enoch was born on 25th October 192 at St.Asaph and died in Llanelli in 1978.
