14 November 1940 – 61 Squadron - RAF Hemswell – Handley Page Hampden I – X3006 – F/L A Moncrieff – Ops Hamburg
Location – Half and mile south of Harpswell Church
This crew were tasked for a night bombing operation to Hamburg. The aircraft veered off the runway on take off and hit a telegraph pole and contractors hut before crashing half a mile south of Harpswell Church not far from the airfield.
F/L Alexander Moncrieff RAF – Pilot – 61 Sqn – Harpswell St Chads Churchyard, Lincolnshire
Sgt Edward Francis Edwin RAFVR - Navigator – 24 – 61 Sqn - Son of James Edwin and of Sarah Edwin (nee Fairfield), of Luton, husband of Clarice Daisy Edwin of Luton - Luton General Cemetery
Sgt Robert Sinclair RAFVR – 21 – 61 Sqn - Son of Mr and Mrs Findlay S Sinclair of Newmills, Fife – Runneymede Memorial
Sgt Clarence Edward Russell RAFVR – 25 – 61 Sqn - Son of Ernest William Russell and of Bertha Russell (nee O'Hara), of Dumbarton - Runneymede Memorial
61 Squadron Group photo. October 1940 which includes Sgts Sinclair and Russell
St Chad’s Harpswell
Moncrieff grave
CWGC plot at St Chad’s
Compiled by David Fell with photos from my archive
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