Halifax MZ454.

In the late afternoon of the 5th of March 1945 severe weather conditions were effecting flying over Yorkshire and these conditions were not forcast prior to a number of aircraft taking off for Ops to Chemnitz. This aircraft took from Tholthorpe at 16.40hrs and twenty minutes later this aircraft crashed close to Little Ouseburn church. Four of the crew were killed, three survived. The nearby church suffered severe damage but was later repaired, a memorial stained glass window in the church porch was erected in 1995.

Pilot - F/O Arthur R Lowe RCAF (J/29556), aged 23, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Initially buried at Stonefall Cemetery.

F Eng - Sgt James L Lynch RCAF (R/201189), aged 20, of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

F/O E S Brabbins RCAF

F/O J F Brownell RCAF

F/Sgt K J S McCuaig RCAF

AG - F/O Paul J Hall RCAF (J/43949), aged 20, of St. George'S, Newfoundland. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Ag - P/O John W Hyde RCAF (J/95349), aged 35, of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

The crew on board Halifax MZ454 when it crashed near Little Ouseburn.

F/O Lowe's body was later exhumed and W R Chorley states his body was returned home to the USA and he now lies in Fairview Cemetery, Red Bank, New Jersey.

The memorial window at the church at Little Ouseburn.

The area where I gather the aircraft crashed