In the early morning of the 10th of November 1942 this Hudson took off from Silloth for a night cross country nav-ex. For whatever reason the aircraft simply wasn't flying high enough and it struck near to the top of a minor sized hill called Beda Head near Ullswater in the early hours
Pilot - F/Sgt John F Saunders RAFVR, aged 27, of Southgate, Cremated Enfield.
Nav - P/O Derric I Jones RAFVR, aged 22, of Carmarthen, buried Carmarthen, Wales.
W Op / Air Gunner - Sgt Stanley A Veasey RAFVR, aged 29, buried Camberwell New Cemetery.
W Op / Air Gunner - Sgt Harold Dickinson RAFVR, aged 26, of Leeds, buried Silloth Cemetery.
Sgt Dickinson's grave at Silloth Cemetery, Cumbria.
Will Lund and myself visited the site in July 2003. Not much remains today, only afew small peices of wreckage in the grass.