On the 29th of June 1943 the crew of this aircraft were undertaking a training flight when an engine failed ten minutes after taking off. At 10.52hrs the aircraft crashed to the south west of Crosby Manor Farm, near Thornton le Beans, two of the crew were killed, five survived.

Pilot - F/Lt D J Corcoran RCAF.

FEng - Sgt Venier RAF

Nav - P/O Richard E (Dick) Nutter RCAF (J17555), aged 29, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

AB - P/O Webley

WOp/AG - Sgt Raymond Crookes RAFVR (1455496), aged 21, of Sheffield. Buried Sheffield (Crookes Cemetery), Sheffield, Yorkshire (Sec JJ, grave 6101).

AG - Sgt Holdsworth

AG - P/O D E Larlee RCAF

I have yet to locate the crash site.

Corcoran and Larlee became PoW's in August 1943. It seems likely that Webley was Air Bomber F/O Leslie C E Webley RCAF (J21610), killed in May 1944 whilst serving with 431 Sqdn.