A Whitley made a forced landing near Kepwick Hall on the 9th July 1941 at 05.25hrs whilst returning from Ops to Hamburg. The five crew members were uninjured and the aircraft was removed and repaired. The location of where this occured has yet to be determined but there is a suggestion it was on the moor behind Kepwick Hall.

The aircraft was built to contract 106912/40 by Armstrong Whitworth Ltd at Baginton and delivered to the RAF in January 1941. After acceptance it was issued to 78 Sqdn at Disforth in February 1941. The aircraft moved with the unit to Middleton St.George on 7th April 1941. In the above incident it sustained Cat B/FB damage and it was dismantled and removed from the site by road to be repaired in works. It was later issued to 24 OTU at Honeybourne when the unit formed on 15th March 1942 and then on as yet unpsecified dates had spells with 10 OTU at Abingdon, 24 OTU at Honeybourne, again and finally 19 OTU at Kinloss. It was written off with Cat E2/FA damage on 4th October 1944 when it suffered an engine failure on take off for a training flight, the pilot was forced to make a crash landing at Forres.

Pilot - Sgt Bernard Thomas McColl Jones RAAF, ok.

Rest of crew unknown.

Sgt Jones RAAF was born 29th Sept 1918 at St Kilda, Victoria, he enlisted in Melbourne 27th May 1940. He was still with the same squadron on 7th September 1941, when Whitley Z6864 he was flying crashed near Markington, Ripon. He and his crew were uninjured on this occasion. Some may have been the same as his Kepwick landing, they were : Nav - Sgt Jones, Obs - Sgt Miller, WOp - Sgt Vere, AG - Sgt Rouse. Small remains were located Mr Dick Barton and friends afew years ago at the Markington site. Jones survived the War and was discharged as a F/Lt on 28th Sept 1945, he was posted to Bramcote at his discharge.