7 May 1940 – 22 Squadron RAF North Coates – Bristol Beaufort I - L4466 - P/O John Theodore Berryman RAF
Location - Crashed on beach just off RAF North Coates
Took off 15.00 hrs from North Coates. During the approach P/O Berryman decided to make another circuit and started to make a turn without retracting the flaps. The Beaufort stalled a wing and crashed onto the beach at 15.30 hrs just off the airfield.
P/O John Theodore Berryman RAF – Pilot – 20 – Son of Richard Harold and Lilian Jane Berryman, of Groombridge, Sussex. – Cranwell ( St Andrew ) Churchyard, Lincolnshire
No other crew members are recorded in this incident.
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Berryman was born in Toronto Canada. His parents returned to the UK when he was 8 and the family lived in Sussex although he had an uncle still living in Toronto at the time of his death
Compiled by David Fell with photo from my archive.
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