205781 Sgt. Pilot William Everard Smith Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve from:Wigan, Lancashire (d.6th Feb 1942) This was my father's elder brother. He was married to a Maureen. His death shattered his father who had lost his wife in 1939 from cancer. There was William Everard (1914/5??), my Dad Thomas Philip 1917, then Betty in 1921.
Being catholic, permission was granted to have his remains brought home to St.Gregory's Romanc Catholic, Chorley, Lancashire to be buried with his mother Lucy Maybel Smith. I grew up so wanting to know how my uncle died. Neither my Dad Tom nor his sister Betty would elaborate. I think he was at RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland...definitely sent to Scotland...I live in New york and want my children to know these things.... Additional Information: | I think your uncle died after his Blenheim struck a tree at Hinton in the Hedges Airfield on the Northamptonshire/Oxfordshire border. We live next to the field where he came down and were told this story by someone who visited us 12 years ago. He had been evacuated to our house during the war. I am sorry we don't have his name.
The field is lovely and peaceful. The roe deer come to it from the adjacent woodland.
Angela Kannan
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