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plane crash sept 1943 Trevellas & d'bug Reigate 44
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Bunnyboo | Report | 6 Aug 2018 18:30 |
OH and I lived in Cornwall for 18 months in 1964 Diane when we were first married and he was in the Fleet Air Arm. We lived near Penzance and our son was born at Hayle. We visited St Agnes many times, they were happy days! |
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Diane | Report | 6 Aug 2018 17:38 |
Thanks Magpie. I haven't posted on here for a few years now but have dipped in and out to see what's going on and have noticed how the number of posts has dwindled considerably since I joined. I have only posted now I suppose because my husband regularly talks about his memories of the war and how happy he was in Cornwall and Reigate. We spent our honeymoon near Hayle nearly 40 years ago now and visited St Agnes, Trevellas and Perranporth and he pointed out all the places he had been during that time. We have always meant to go back again but I don't think I could face the long trek and we have our own "in house puppy", but you never know! |
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Bunnyboo | Report | 6 Aug 2018 12:05 |
Diane, I can't help at all, but I have found your post very interesting, not least because after the war my mother, stepfather and I used to holiday at St Agnes from about 1948-1951. I can't remember the name of the small hotel, but the landlady was a Mrs Twiss. My grandparents had been there the previous year and came home with an 'in house' puppy!!! St Agnes has always stood out in my mind all these years as some of the happiest holidays we had. Both my father and stepfather were in the RAF during the war one survived, one didn't. |
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Diane | Report | 6 Aug 2018 11:34 |
Thank you everyone for all this very interesting info most of which I have printed off. |
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Kense | Report | 5 Aug 2018 15:50 |
Two items from BBC Peoples War have relevance to this thread. The first mentions the plane crash. |
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Eringobragh1916 | Report | 5 Aug 2018 14:55 |
A little detail on Ft Sgt M F Nolan... |
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Kucinta | Report | 5 Aug 2018 14:50 |
The CWGC details for the pilot of the plane: |
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Researching: |
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ElizabethK | Report | 5 Aug 2018 11:38 |
Diane |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 5 Aug 2018 10:56 |
You could approach a local newspaper to the crash site to see if they’d run an article, ditto one serving Hull. |
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Researching: |
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Diane | Report | 4 Aug 2018 23:34 |
Thank you Andy & Kense - this information gives me a good starting point. My husband was hoping someone else might have remembered the crash but I think that would be most unlikely now after 75 years! He also has another memory of a doodlebug over Reigate in 1944 but I'll put that on another post and see if I can get lucky again. |
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Kense | Report | 4 Aug 2018 20:46 |
Crash details: |
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Andrew | Report | 4 Aug 2018 19:23 |
This might be his birth |
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Andrew | Report | 4 Aug 2018 19:14 |
Here is the record... |
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Diane | Report | 4 Aug 2018 18:24 |
This is just a stab in the dark. My father in law was in RAF during war and spent some time based in Cornwall, with family. My husband who is now 80 can vividly remember a plane crashing into a cottage at Trevellas and Wikipedia states that a woman was injured and her 4 year old son killed. He was buried in St Agnes cemetery. We are trying to find anyone with memories of this and who maybe knew the family who lived in the cottage. Here's hoping! |