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F/Sgt. Stanley William Pook

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 15 OTU

from:Southampton

(d.8th April 1942)

F/Sgt Pook 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

Additional Information:

F/Sgt Pook was my wife's uncle. The crash was not in Cold Ashton ESE of Bristol but Cold Aston near Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire.

Derek Barnes








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