Initials: D H
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Flight Sergeant (Pilot)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Age: 20
Date of Death: 12/09/1941
Service No: 922271
Additional information: Son of Richard Willoughby Bartlett and Margaret Alice Bartlett, of High Wycombe.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. B.1. Grave 5.
He was serving with No. 14 Operational Training Unit, RAF Bomber Command, based at RAF Cottesmore.
He was a pilot of a Hampden H.P. 52 bomber, P4303, which was involved in a mid-air collision during a training exercise. It crashed at Saltby Satellite Aerodrome, eight miles North-East of Melton Mowbray, at 20.50hrs on 12th September 1941. All on board were killed.
The crew were,
Flight Sergeant Donald Harry Bartlett, aged 20,
Pilot
Sergeant Arthur Percy Overall, aged 24,
Pilot
Sergeant Herbert Roy Tuff, aged 30,
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Sergeant Jack Edward Wall, aged 19
Pilot
Sergeant Thomas Ian Arthur West, aged 23
Pilot
Initials: D H
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Flight Sergeant (Pilot)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Age: 20
Date of Death: 12/09/1941
Service No: 922271
Additional information: Son of Richard Willoughby Bartlett and Margaret Alice Bartlett, of High Wycombe.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. B.1. Grave 5.
He was serving with No. 14 Operational Training Unit, RAF Bomber Command, based at RAF Cottesmore.
He was a pilot of a Hampden H.P. 52 bomber, P4303, which was involved in a mid-air collision during a training exercise. It crashed at Saltby Satellite Aerodrome, eight miles North-East of Melton Mowbray, at 20.50hrs on 12th September 1941. All on board were killed.
The crew were,
Flight Sergeant Donald Harry Bartlett, aged 20,
Pilot
Sergeant Arthur Percy Overall, aged 24,
Pilot
Sergeant Herbert Roy Tuff, aged 30,
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Sergeant Jack Edward Wall, aged 19
Pilot
Sergeant Thomas Ian Arthur West, aged 23
Pilot
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