W J Burnett in the cockpit of a Hampden (photo Jim Rutland).

Pilot - Sqdn/Ldr Wilfred J Burnett DFC RCAF,

Nav - F/Sgt James A Bunting RAF, aged ? Of ? Buried Otley Cemetery, Yorkshire.

W Op - Sgt John R Appleby RAFVR, aged 26, of Stockton on Tees. Buried Stockton on Tees Cemetery. Married to Yvonne Appleby of Billingham.

AG - Sgt Maurice Jones RAF, aged 21, Of Tibshelf, Buried Tibshelf, Derbyshire.

My wife and I searched for the site in April 2006 but found nothing in the area contained on this photograph. Since my visit I have been informed the aircraft may well have crashed over the wall and in the fields (just off camera).

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Graham Sharpe and Nick Roberts inform me that small parts where to be found some years ago when they visited the site.

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Dave Earl details this incident in his second book, "Hell on High Ground 2". I do not plan on copying his work.