Handley Page HP.52 Hampden - Husborne Crawley, Bedfordshire, UK.
N 52° 00.451 W 000° 36.581
30U E 664057 N 5764571
This was a wartime crash of a bomber returning to base. However, it appears to have been many miles off course.
Waymark Code: WMCA6G
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/15/2011
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The plaque close to the crash site reads as follows:-
"As you walk along this path, you will pass a point on your left some 200 yards further on where during WW2, in the early hours of 9th September 1941, a British Bomber crashed in flames killing Sgt Ford Rowney aged 23 & Flight Sgt Tony Barker aged 23. The other two members of the crew, Sgt E Morgan & Sgt J Mitchell survived by bailing-out and landed close to this spot.
As you pass please remember these two young airmen who paid the ultimate sacrifice for their country and our future."
The aircraft and crew had completed a mission over Germany and was returning to it's base in Lincolnshire. To have been here over Bedfordshire, represented a significant detour. The families of the two dead airmen were told that they had been shot down in action over Germany.
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Date of Crash: 09/09/1941
Aircraft Model: Handley Page HP.52 Hampden
Military or Civilian: Military
Tail Number: Not known
Cause of Crash:
Although the official records say that the cause of the crash was that the aircraft had run out of fuel, there were local reports of it being seen to have been in flames as it came down.
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