Rank: Flying Officer. Service No: 404346. Date of Death: 06/01/1942. Age: 27. Regiment/Service: Royal Australian Air Force. Husband of Nancy Ruth MacDonald.
Vickers Wellington Mk IV of 458 Squadron RAAF - Registration Z1182. Took off from RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor at 04:37 for an Operation to Brest. Eight minutes later the aircraft crashed into a field near North Howden railway station because of ice and snow on the aircraft surfaces and the aircraft was unable to climb properly. It was thought that although the snow was removed prior to take off melting snow had frozen after taking off. The bombs had been jettisoned just before the crash. Sadly two of the crew died as a result of the incident.
Vickers Wellington Mk IV of 458 Squadron RAAF - Registration Z1182. Took off from RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor at 04:37 for an Operation to Brest. Eight minutes later the aircraft crashed into a field near North Howden railway station because of ice and snow on the aircraft surfaces and the aircraft was unable to climb properly. It was thought that although the snow was removed prior to take off melting snow had frozen after taking off. The bombs had been jettisoned just before the crash. Sadly two of the crew died as a result of the incident.
Rank: Flying Officer. Service No: 404346. Date of Death: 06/01/1942. Age: 27. Regiment/Service: Royal Australian Air Force. Husband of Nancy Ruth MacDonald.
Vickers Wellington Mk IV of 458 Squadron RAAF - Registration Z1182. Took off from RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor at 04:37 for an Operation to Brest. Eight minutes later the aircraft crashed into a field near North Howden railway station because of ice and snow on the aircraft surfaces and the aircraft was unable to climb properly. It was thought that although the snow was removed prior to take off melting snow had frozen after taking off. The bombs had been jettisoned just before the crash. Sadly two of the crew died as a result of the incident.
Vickers Wellington Mk IV of 458 Squadron RAAF - Registration Z1182. Took off from RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor at 04:37 for an Operation to Brest. Eight minutes later the aircraft crashed into a field near North Howden railway station because of ice and snow on the aircraft surfaces and the aircraft was unable to climb properly. It was thought that although the snow was removed prior to take off melting snow had frozen after taking off. The bombs had been jettisoned just before the crash. Sadly two of the crew died as a result of the incident.
Inscription
Flying Officer
E. J. N. MacDONALD
Royal Australian Air Force
6th January 1942 Age 27
Gravesite Details
Commonwealth war graves military headstone.
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Records on Ancestry
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York, Yorkshire, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1995
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UK, World War II Index to Allied Airmen Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
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Australia, World War II Military Service Records, 1939-1945
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England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
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Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985
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