A casualty of World War II, Hoyt served with the Royal Air Force Ferry Command.
He was 24 and the son of Edward L. Judy and Mabel Judy; husband of Texas Miller Judy.
Hoyt Judy had married Texas Miller on 5th July 1940 and the couple had both gone to Canada in May 1941 when Hoyt volunteered to ferry aircraft. He was a former US Navy pilot and had then flown as a civilian pilot with Braniff Airlines on their Dallas to Chicago route probably as a mail plane pilot.
Consolidated Liberator (LB-30A) AM261 of the Atlantic Return Ferry Organisation, flew into Mullach Buidhe north of Goat Fell on the Isle of Arran on 10th August 1941
The aircraft had take off from Heathfield (Ayr) to fly to Gander in eastern Canada with ferry crews on board with the intention of those crews ferrying new aircraft back across the Atlantic. Shortly after take off the aircraft entered cloud and flew into Mullach Buidhe near the head of Coire Lan. The flight crews onboard were from Royal Air Force Ferry Command, Air Transport Auxiliary and British Overseas Airways Corporation. All 22 of the crew and passengers perished in the crash making it the worst crash on Arran. This aircraft had been used less than two weeks earlier to fly the Duke of Kent across the Atlantic, the first such time a member of the royal family had crossed the Atlantic by air.
All of the crew and passengers were buried on Arran except Radio Officer Henry Green who was buried at Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey.
Ernest Robert Bristow White Captain BOAC Pilot
Francis Delaforce Bradbrooke Captain ATA Co-pilot
Passengers
James Josiah Anderson Captain RAFFC
Ralph Bruce Brammer Radio Officer RAFFC
John Beatty Drake Radio Officer RAFFC
Daniel Joseph Duggan Captain RAFFC
Henry Samuel Green Radio Officer BOAC
George Thomas Harris Captain RAFFC
Capt. Jack Wixen RAFFC
Wilfrid Graves Kennedy Radio Officer RAFFC
Watt Miller King Captain RAFFC
George Laing Radio Officer RAFFC
William Kenneth Marks Radio Officer RAFFC
Hugh Cameron McIntosh Radio Officer RAFFC
Albert Alexander Oliver Radio Officer ATA
George Herbert Powell Radio Officer ATA
John Evan Price Captain RAFFC
Herbert David Rees Radio Officer ATA
Ernest George Reeves Flight Engineer RAFFC
John James Rouleston First Officer RAFFC (headstone was misspelled)
Harold Clifford Wesley Smith Captain RAFFC
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Tyler, Texas) 13 Aug 1941, Wed
7 U.S. Officer
Pilots Killed
Among 22 Victims Of
Crash in England
LONDON, Aug. 12 (AP). - Seven American officer pilots and 15 British and Canadian officers were killed Sunday in the crash of a large transocean airplane into a hillside just after leaving a British airport it was announced Tuesday.
The big plane was believed to have been headed back to Canada with crews to ferry American -made bombers to Britain. Eight of the victims were Canadians, six British, and one from Australia. On the death list were 11 captains, 10 radio operators, and a flying engineer.
The RAF ferry command in Montreal gave the following list of American dead:
Captain George T. Harris, Lawrence, Kansas; Capt. Watt M. King, Little Rock, Ark.; Capt. Hoyt R. Judy, Dallas, Texas; Capt. D. J. Duggan, Winthrop, Mass.; Capt. Jack Wixen, Los Angeles; Capt. J. J. J. Roulstone, Long Beach, Calif.; Flight Engineer E. G. Reeves, Roslyn Heights, N.Y.
DALLAS , Aug. 12 (AP), His first flight across the Atlantic in a bomber ended in death for Capt. Hoyt R. Judy, former Braniff Airways co-pilot and one of the 22 men who the Royal Air Force ferry command announced Tuesday perished in a British flying accident.
"Hoyt evidently was on his first flight across the Atlantic when he was killed," said Olin Bragg, Braniff personnel manager. "We received a card from him only last week in Montreal."
A dispatch from London said 22 persons were killed when a transport plane struck a hillside just after leaving an airport.
Captain Judy's mother, Mrs Julian Martin, resides at Edmond, Okla., his home town. He attended Central State Teachers' College there and was graduated from the Naval air school at Pensacola, Fla.
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In the official "Report Of The Death Of An American Citizen" Hoyt Judy's birthdate is listed in the remarks as "He submitted a birth certificate showing birth at Lawrenceville, Illinois on March 26, 1917".
Contributor Geraldine Pfeiffer 49883808 January 22, 2023
He was 24 and the son of Edward L. Judy and Mabel Judy; husband of Texas Miller Judy.
Hoyt Judy had married Texas Miller on 5th July 1940 and the couple had both gone to Canada in May 1941 when Hoyt volunteered to ferry aircraft. He was a former US Navy pilot and had then flown as a civilian pilot with Braniff Airlines on their Dallas to Chicago route probably as a mail plane pilot.
Consolidated Liberator (LB-30A) AM261 of the Atlantic Return Ferry Organisation, flew into Mullach Buidhe north of Goat Fell on the Isle of Arran on 10th August 1941
The aircraft had take off from Heathfield (Ayr) to fly to Gander in eastern Canada with ferry crews on board with the intention of those crews ferrying new aircraft back across the Atlantic. Shortly after take off the aircraft entered cloud and flew into Mullach Buidhe near the head of Coire Lan. The flight crews onboard were from Royal Air Force Ferry Command, Air Transport Auxiliary and British Overseas Airways Corporation. All 22 of the crew and passengers perished in the crash making it the worst crash on Arran. This aircraft had been used less than two weeks earlier to fly the Duke of Kent across the Atlantic, the first such time a member of the royal family had crossed the Atlantic by air.
All of the crew and passengers were buried on Arran except Radio Officer Henry Green who was buried at Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey.
Ernest Robert Bristow White Captain BOAC Pilot
Francis Delaforce Bradbrooke Captain ATA Co-pilot
Passengers
James Josiah Anderson Captain RAFFC
Ralph Bruce Brammer Radio Officer RAFFC
John Beatty Drake Radio Officer RAFFC
Daniel Joseph Duggan Captain RAFFC
Henry Samuel Green Radio Officer BOAC
George Thomas Harris Captain RAFFC
Capt. Jack Wixen RAFFC
Wilfrid Graves Kennedy Radio Officer RAFFC
Watt Miller King Captain RAFFC
George Laing Radio Officer RAFFC
William Kenneth Marks Radio Officer RAFFC
Hugh Cameron McIntosh Radio Officer RAFFC
Albert Alexander Oliver Radio Officer ATA
George Herbert Powell Radio Officer ATA
John Evan Price Captain RAFFC
Herbert David Rees Radio Officer ATA
Ernest George Reeves Flight Engineer RAFFC
John James Rouleston First Officer RAFFC (headstone was misspelled)
Harold Clifford Wesley Smith Captain RAFFC
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Tyler, Texas) 13 Aug 1941, Wed
7 U.S. Officer
Pilots Killed
Among 22 Victims Of
Crash in England
LONDON, Aug. 12 (AP). - Seven American officer pilots and 15 British and Canadian officers were killed Sunday in the crash of a large transocean airplane into a hillside just after leaving a British airport it was announced Tuesday.
The big plane was believed to have been headed back to Canada with crews to ferry American -made bombers to Britain. Eight of the victims were Canadians, six British, and one from Australia. On the death list were 11 captains, 10 radio operators, and a flying engineer.
The RAF ferry command in Montreal gave the following list of American dead:
Captain George T. Harris, Lawrence, Kansas; Capt. Watt M. King, Little Rock, Ark.; Capt. Hoyt R. Judy, Dallas, Texas; Capt. D. J. Duggan, Winthrop, Mass.; Capt. Jack Wixen, Los Angeles; Capt. J. J. J. Roulstone, Long Beach, Calif.; Flight Engineer E. G. Reeves, Roslyn Heights, N.Y.
DALLAS , Aug. 12 (AP), His first flight across the Atlantic in a bomber ended in death for Capt. Hoyt R. Judy, former Braniff Airways co-pilot and one of the 22 men who the Royal Air Force ferry command announced Tuesday perished in a British flying accident.
"Hoyt evidently was on his first flight across the Atlantic when he was killed," said Olin Bragg, Braniff personnel manager. "We received a card from him only last week in Montreal."
A dispatch from London said 22 persons were killed when a transport plane struck a hillside just after leaving an airport.
Captain Judy's mother, Mrs Julian Martin, resides at Edmond, Okla., his home town. He attended Central State Teachers' College there and was graduated from the Naval air school at Pensacola, Fla.
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In the official "Report Of The Death Of An American Citizen" Hoyt Judy's birthdate is listed in the remarks as "He submitted a birth certificate showing birth at Lawrenceville, Illinois on March 26, 1917".
Contributor Geraldine Pfeiffer 49883808 January 22, 2023
A casualty of World War II, Hoyt served with the Royal Air Force Ferry Command.
He was 24 and the son of Edward L. Judy and Mabel Judy; husband of Texas Miller Judy.
Hoyt Judy had married Texas Miller on 5th July 1940 and the couple had both gone to Canada in May 1941 when Hoyt volunteered to ferry aircraft. He was a former US Navy pilot and had then flown as a civilian pilot with Braniff Airlines on their Dallas to Chicago route probably as a mail plane pilot.
Consolidated Liberator (LB-30A) AM261 of the Atlantic Return Ferry Organisation, flew into Mullach Buidhe north of Goat Fell on the Isle of Arran on 10th August 1941
The aircraft had take off from Heathfield (Ayr) to fly to Gander in eastern Canada with ferry crews on board with the intention of those crews ferrying new aircraft back across the Atlantic. Shortly after take off the aircraft entered cloud and flew into Mullach Buidhe near the head of Coire Lan. The flight crews onboard were from Royal Air Force Ferry Command, Air Transport Auxiliary and British Overseas Airways Corporation. All 22 of the crew and passengers perished in the crash making it the worst crash on Arran. This aircraft had been used less than two weeks earlier to fly the Duke of Kent across the Atlantic, the first such time a member of the royal family had crossed the Atlantic by air.
All of the crew and passengers were buried on Arran except Radio Officer Henry Green who was buried at Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey.
Ernest Robert Bristow White Captain BOAC Pilot
Francis Delaforce Bradbrooke Captain ATA Co-pilot
Passengers
James Josiah Anderson Captain RAFFC
Ralph Bruce Brammer Radio Officer RAFFC
John Beatty Drake Radio Officer RAFFC
Daniel Joseph Duggan Captain RAFFC
Henry Samuel Green Radio Officer BOAC
George Thomas Harris Captain RAFFC
Capt. Jack Wixen RAFFC
Wilfrid Graves Kennedy Radio Officer RAFFC
Watt Miller King Captain RAFFC
George Laing Radio Officer RAFFC
William Kenneth Marks Radio Officer RAFFC
Hugh Cameron McIntosh Radio Officer RAFFC
Albert Alexander Oliver Radio Officer ATA
George Herbert Powell Radio Officer ATA
John Evan Price Captain RAFFC
Herbert David Rees Radio Officer ATA
Ernest George Reeves Flight Engineer RAFFC
John James Rouleston First Officer RAFFC (headstone was misspelled)
Harold Clifford Wesley Smith Captain RAFFC
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Tyler, Texas) 13 Aug 1941, Wed
7 U.S. Officer
Pilots Killed
Among 22 Victims Of
Crash in England
LONDON, Aug. 12 (AP). - Seven American officer pilots and 15 British and Canadian officers were killed Sunday in the crash of a large transocean airplane into a hillside just after leaving a British airport it was announced Tuesday.
The big plane was believed to have been headed back to Canada with crews to ferry American -made bombers to Britain. Eight of the victims were Canadians, six British, and one from Australia. On the death list were 11 captains, 10 radio operators, and a flying engineer.
The RAF ferry command in Montreal gave the following list of American dead:
Captain George T. Harris, Lawrence, Kansas; Capt. Watt M. King, Little Rock, Ark.; Capt. Hoyt R. Judy, Dallas, Texas; Capt. D. J. Duggan, Winthrop, Mass.; Capt. Jack Wixen, Los Angeles; Capt. J. J. J. Roulstone, Long Beach, Calif.; Flight Engineer E. G. Reeves, Roslyn Heights, N.Y.
DALLAS , Aug. 12 (AP), His first flight across the Atlantic in a bomber ended in death for Capt. Hoyt R. Judy, former Braniff Airways co-pilot and one of the 22 men who the Royal Air Force ferry command announced Tuesday perished in a British flying accident.
"Hoyt evidently was on his first flight across the Atlantic when he was killed," said Olin Bragg, Braniff personnel manager. "We received a card from him only last week in Montreal."
A dispatch from London said 22 persons were killed when a transport plane struck a hillside just after leaving an airport.
Captain Judy's mother, Mrs Julian Martin, resides at Edmond, Okla., his home town. He attended Central State Teachers' College there and was graduated from the Naval air school at Pensacola, Fla.
~~~~
In the official "Report Of The Death Of An American Citizen" Hoyt Judy's birthdate is listed in the remarks as "He submitted a birth certificate showing birth at Lawrenceville, Illinois on March 26, 1917".
Contributor Geraldine Pfeiffer 49883808 January 22, 2023
He was 24 and the son of Edward L. Judy and Mabel Judy; husband of Texas Miller Judy.
Hoyt Judy had married Texas Miller on 5th July 1940 and the couple had both gone to Canada in May 1941 when Hoyt volunteered to ferry aircraft. He was a former US Navy pilot and had then flown as a civilian pilot with Braniff Airlines on their Dallas to Chicago route probably as a mail plane pilot.
Consolidated Liberator (LB-30A) AM261 of the Atlantic Return Ferry Organisation, flew into Mullach Buidhe north of Goat Fell on the Isle of Arran on 10th August 1941
The aircraft had take off from Heathfield (Ayr) to fly to Gander in eastern Canada with ferry crews on board with the intention of those crews ferrying new aircraft back across the Atlantic. Shortly after take off the aircraft entered cloud and flew into Mullach Buidhe near the head of Coire Lan. The flight crews onboard were from Royal Air Force Ferry Command, Air Transport Auxiliary and British Overseas Airways Corporation. All 22 of the crew and passengers perished in the crash making it the worst crash on Arran. This aircraft had been used less than two weeks earlier to fly the Duke of Kent across the Atlantic, the first such time a member of the royal family had crossed the Atlantic by air.
All of the crew and passengers were buried on Arran except Radio Officer Henry Green who was buried at Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey.
Ernest Robert Bristow White Captain BOAC Pilot
Francis Delaforce Bradbrooke Captain ATA Co-pilot
Passengers
James Josiah Anderson Captain RAFFC
Ralph Bruce Brammer Radio Officer RAFFC
John Beatty Drake Radio Officer RAFFC
Daniel Joseph Duggan Captain RAFFC
Henry Samuel Green Radio Officer BOAC
George Thomas Harris Captain RAFFC
Capt. Jack Wixen RAFFC
Wilfrid Graves Kennedy Radio Officer RAFFC
Watt Miller King Captain RAFFC
George Laing Radio Officer RAFFC
William Kenneth Marks Radio Officer RAFFC
Hugh Cameron McIntosh Radio Officer RAFFC
Albert Alexander Oliver Radio Officer ATA
George Herbert Powell Radio Officer ATA
John Evan Price Captain RAFFC
Herbert David Rees Radio Officer ATA
Ernest George Reeves Flight Engineer RAFFC
John James Rouleston First Officer RAFFC (headstone was misspelled)
Harold Clifford Wesley Smith Captain RAFFC
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Tyler, Texas) 13 Aug 1941, Wed
7 U.S. Officer
Pilots Killed
Among 22 Victims Of
Crash in England
LONDON, Aug. 12 (AP). - Seven American officer pilots and 15 British and Canadian officers were killed Sunday in the crash of a large transocean airplane into a hillside just after leaving a British airport it was announced Tuesday.
The big plane was believed to have been headed back to Canada with crews to ferry American -made bombers to Britain. Eight of the victims were Canadians, six British, and one from Australia. On the death list were 11 captains, 10 radio operators, and a flying engineer.
The RAF ferry command in Montreal gave the following list of American dead:
Captain George T. Harris, Lawrence, Kansas; Capt. Watt M. King, Little Rock, Ark.; Capt. Hoyt R. Judy, Dallas, Texas; Capt. D. J. Duggan, Winthrop, Mass.; Capt. Jack Wixen, Los Angeles; Capt. J. J. J. Roulstone, Long Beach, Calif.; Flight Engineer E. G. Reeves, Roslyn Heights, N.Y.
DALLAS , Aug. 12 (AP), His first flight across the Atlantic in a bomber ended in death for Capt. Hoyt R. Judy, former Braniff Airways co-pilot and one of the 22 men who the Royal Air Force ferry command announced Tuesday perished in a British flying accident.
"Hoyt evidently was on his first flight across the Atlantic when he was killed," said Olin Bragg, Braniff personnel manager. "We received a card from him only last week in Montreal."
A dispatch from London said 22 persons were killed when a transport plane struck a hillside just after leaving an airport.
Captain Judy's mother, Mrs Julian Martin, resides at Edmond, Okla., his home town. He attended Central State Teachers' College there and was graduated from the Naval air school at Pensacola, Fla.
~~~~
In the official "Report Of The Death Of An American Citizen" Hoyt Judy's birthdate is listed in the remarks as "He submitted a birth certificate showing birth at Lawrenceville, Illinois on March 26, 1917".
Contributor Geraldine Pfeiffer 49883808 January 22, 2023
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