Whitley on Ilkley Moor.

On the 16th of October 1940 this aircraft was being ferried to Prestwick in poor weather when it crashed into high ground on Ilkley Moor killing the sole occupant.

ATA Pilot - F/O Thomas D Trouncer RAFVR (74264), aged 34, of South Kensington, London. Buried Kensal Green R.C. Cemetery, London.


I have yet to locate the crash site. Graham Sharpe however did locate fragments at the site in 1979, the photograph above shows these fragments.