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Sgt. Frederick Keith Fairclough
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 15 OTU
from:Farnworth
(d.8th April 1942)
Sgt Fairclough was killed on 8th April 1942 when 15 OTU Wellington L7818 took off from Harwell for cross country excercise. It was involved in a collision with Spitfire R6686 from 57 OTU flown by P/O J.R. Lee. Both aircraft crashed a few hundred yards apart in the valley of the Broadwater stream near Cold Ashton 9 miles ESE of Bristol, all on board the Wellington were killed as was P/O Lee and are buried in various cemeteries in the UK.
Wellington crew were:
W/O G.E. Leeke
Sgt W.F. Good
F/Sgt S.W. Pook
Sgt E. Coleman
Sgt F.K. Fairclough
Sgt W. Wilson
The Spitfire pilot was from Texas