In Perth High Court on 2 June 1942, the case was heard against Charles Robinson White, age 21. He was charged with the culpable homicide of Aircraftman 1st Class William Blair Morrison RAFVR (1104142), age 29. The incident happened at RAF Dunino in Fife, at 9.30 am on 11 May 1941. White presented a […]
Flight Sergeant Douglas James Morrison Dunn RAFVR (1554921) navigator, age 23 was killed in an aircraft accident whilst landing at Foggia Main airfield in Italy on 9 June 1944. Dunn was the son of Andrew and Jeanie Dunn of Rosefield Farm, Balbeggie, Perthshire. Extracts from AIR 27/822, RAF 104 Squadron Operations Record Book, June 1944. Detail of Work Carried Out: Target: Szolnok, Hungary, June, 1st Aircraft […]
Battle of Britain fighter pilot Andrew Smitton Darling (740544) was the son of Peter and Mary Ann Greig Darling of 64 Feus, Auchterarder, the husband of Margaret Robertson Darling, Ayr. After taking a commercial course in Perth, he was employed on the clerical staff of Scottish Agricultural Industries Limited, Crieff. Later, […]
On 22 July 1943, Sergeant John Archibald Campbell RAFVR (1690312) age 20, lost his life in an aircraft accident at RAF Stradishall in the Borough of St Edmundsbury in the English county of Suffolk (between Cambridge and Ipswich). Campbell was flying in a Short Stirling Mk1, W7586 four-engine heavy bomber from RAF […]
On Shalloch on Minnocha Corbett, at the north end of the ‘Awful Hand’ range in the Southern Uplands, part of Galloway Forest Park, Leading Aircraftman James Cameron Campbell was a member of an Avro Anson crew that was lost on 2 July 1942. Campbell, 1346334, RAFVR was the husband of Catherine Mason […]
Sergeant Alexander Little was the pilot of Armstrong Whitley V EB389 from RAF 24 OTU at RAF Honeybourne, between Redditch and Cheltenham in Worcestershire, England. RAF 24 Operational Training Unit was formed there on 15 March 1942 as part of RAF 7 Group Bomber Command to train night bomber crews using Armstrong Whitleys. During 1942, the unit carried out three normal bomber […]
South of Bergen and North of Stavanger in Norway lies the cemetery of Haugesund (Rossebo) Var Frelsers in which lies the war grave of Sergeant David Ferguson Sharpe Campbell. Campbell, 74301, RAFVR was the observer on a Bristol Blenheim Mk IV, N3604, (QY-R), a twin-engined light bomber from RAF 254 Squadron on 25 […]
Flight Sergeant Archibald Campbell RAFVR (1371720), age 29, was the son of Archibald and Isabella Campbell of 5 Kincarrathie Crescent, Perth. Archibald Campbell was the pilot of a de Havilland Mosquito Mk IV Series II, DZ368 of RAF 540 Squadron. At this time RAF 540 squadron was based at RAF […]
Leading Aircraftwoman (LACW) Nan Menzies Roberts 2116233 WAAF (Women’s Auxiliary Air Force) was the daughter of David and Annie Duncan Menzies Kirk, 20 County Place, Perth and the wife of LAC Albert Pearson Roberts, 7 Polnoon Avenue, Glasgow. On 25 March 1945, a Hawker Typhoon Mk. Ib MN236 of RAF No. 55 Operational Training Unit […]
Leading Aircraftwoman Ethel Cassidy 896633 WAAF (Women’s Auxiliary Air Force) was tragically killed whilst walking with another Aircraftwoman along a road shortly before 11 pm on Saturday 28 March 1942. The Cornishman newspaper of 2 April 1942 reported the following: REDRUTH TRAGEDY Girl Dies Following Car Accident A tragedy occurred outside Redruth […]
