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Sgt. James Windsor
Royal Air Force No. 144 Squadron
from:Bethnal Green, London
(d.17th Apr 1940)
James Windsor was the eldest of four children and had been recently married when he died with his crew on the night of 17th April 1940. His Hampden bomber, No.L4163, failed to gain height on take-off and crashed into a farm cottage on the airfield perimeter. He was the nephew of Walter Windsor, the Labour MP for Kingston-upon-Hull. He is buried in St. Chad's churchyard, Harpswell within a few yards of the main runway at RAF Hemswell.