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9th February 2008, 10:18
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Re: Oxford 20/11/39 barrage balloon
Hello Brian,
These two men are the only two deceased on 20/11/1939 to be found on the CWGC-site: Flying Officer Duncan Robinson Anderson, RCAF, C/204, age 38, 20/11/1939, Pointe Claire Lakeview Memorial Gardens, Canada Sergeant (Pilot) A.G. Nicholson, RAF 700161, age 23, 20/11/1939, Kingsland (St. Michael) Churchyard, UK Pilot Officer (Pilot) Henry Noel On 21/11/1939 the CWGC lists one casualty: Masterson, RAF 42069, age 20, 21/11/1939, Mount Jerome Cemetery, Ireland Regards, Bart
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9th February 2008, 11:00
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Re: Oxford 20/11/39 barrage balloon
Thanks Bart - and apologies.
I should have mentioned that this was a BOAC Oxford, which I now know to have been G-AFFM, so the two deceased would have been civilians. Details still required, please. Cheers Brian
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9th February 2008, 20:41
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Re: Oxford 20/11/39 barrage balloon
Air Britian Oxford File has this as G-AFFM c/n 75, L4538 - Not delivered to RAF, retained by Airspeed and loaned to Britsih Airways 10.38 for radio-navigation trials; flw iunto ballon barrage over Gosport 20.11.39 and crashed and Damaged beyond repair - with 2 killed (not named)
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11th February 2008, 09:54
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Re: Oxford 20/11/39 barrage balloon
The Times Tuesday Nov 21st 1939 has
"Two Killed in Aeroplane Crash The pilot and the radio operator were killed when a civil aeroplane crashed near Gosport, Hants, yesterday after hitting a cable. The pilot, Arthur George Nicholson was 23. Before the war he flew on the Heston to Warsaw route for British Airways. He was a native of Aylesbury Bucks, and was married. The radio operator, Arthur Edward Eady, a Londoner was 27. he too, was a married man and before the war was with British Airways, serving on the Scandinavian and Brussels routes.
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11th February 2008, 09:56
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Re: Oxford 20/11/39 barrage balloon
The Times on Nov 22nd has an Air Ministry communique report that confirms hit ballon barrages
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11th February 2008, 10:22
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Re: Oxford 20/11/39 barrage balloon
Many thanks indeed, Paul, really appreciated.
From knowing very little about this incident a few days ago, I now have more or less all the information required. Excellent Cheers Brian
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