16 SFTS RAF Newton

[Col Bruggy]

Originally Posted by noggin

Thank you all very much. 16 June 1944 wasn't 16 SFTS but Oxford ED236 CFS RAF Upavon , crashed at Castle Coombe F/O Jozef Urbanski 2xML killed. Born 1910 Olesnica Lodz Poland , buried Newark Cemetery. Also killed S/Ldr William Jefferies RAF buried Bath Haycombe cemetery; Major Pieter Hayden-Thomas, SAAF buried Bath Haycombe cemetery.

Just a few finer points on the above. Oxford I ED236 was on the charge of the Empire Central Flying School at Hullavington, not the Central Flying School, Upavon. The Oxford hit a wall on a BABS approach to Castle Combe, Wiltshire. S/Ldr William JEFFERIES RAF, should read; 100542 S/L (Flying Instructor) William Peter JEFFERIES RAFVR. The SAAF fatality should read; P102652V Major Pieter Jooste HAYDEN-THOMAS AFC, SAAF.

Col.