On the 11th of June 1940 this aircraft swung on take off from Thornaby and crashed near Quarry Farm, Ingleby Barwick at 03.20hrs. The crash caused the bombload to explode killing all four airmen. Cat W/FA damage was sustained, the Court of Inquiry returned a result as "cause obscure".

The aircraft was built to contract 791587/38 by Lockheed at Burbank and after delivery to the UK, assembly and testing it was issued to 220 Sqdn in early 1940.

This would be the first of two Hudson crashes at Quarry Farm.

Pilot - Sgt Eric Morgan RAF, aged 30, of ? Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Pilot - Sgt Dennis R Holbeche RAF, aged 26, Of Grays, Essex. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

W Op - AC1 William C Irvine RAF, aged 19, of Tullyhogue, Co. Tyrone, of Northern Ireland. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

AG - Sgt James R Butterworth RAF, aged 23, of Kendal, Westmorland. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Sgt Eric Morgan and his gravestone.

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Sgt Dennis Holbeche and his gravestone.

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Gravestones of the other two who sadly were killed in this incident.

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General area of crash site not get visited, although the area may well have been built over in the past few years.