| Description | Description of aircrash on the 7 February 1944. A Halifax bomber on a training fight from Rufforth crashed, colliding with a milk lorry, as it slid across the road (A166). The crew and the lorry driver all died, a memorial stone was erected on the 10 November 2002, by Alun Emlyn-Jones who was the crews regular bomb-aimer, who should have been on the flight but was recovering from appendicitis.
The crew:-
Flight Sergeant Stanley Bright, aged 22, Pilot
Sergeant Kenneth Smith, aged 22, Wireless Operator
Sergeant John Frederick Nelson, aged 21, Engineer
Flight Officer John Kingsley Meyler, aged 25, Navigator
Sergeant Peter Gordon Mcdonald, aged 19, Air Gunner
Sergeant Sidney James Booker, aged 19, air Gunner
Flight Lieutenant Alfred John Shirley Hodson DFC, aged 29, Pilot Instructor
and
Arthur Wood Kirkby, Hull, truck driver, aged 18
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