Aircraft Crash Site

Wellington MF509

Crashed 20th November 1944

 

The reported reason for the crash was due to ice forming on the starboard engine during a cross country night exercise.

All six crewmen were killed.

SGT Charles Hamel

SGT Jules Robert Rene Villeneuve

F/O William Joseph Allison

SGT Joseph Paul Ernest Burke

SGT Arthur Grouix

SGT Gerard Dusablon

A large amount of wreckage remains on site along with a small memorial.

 

The Vickers Wellington MK10 departed a satellite airfield in Stratford-Upon-Avon on the 20th November 1944, on a night navigational exercise.

Heading for RAF Wellesbourne Mountford, it descended below the clouds, due to trouble with the starboard engine.

Flying too low it crashed into the mountains of the Brecon Beacons South West of Carreg coch.

Family members of the aircrew have recently been discovered and a memorial was placed at the site, due to the discovery of a photograph found by one of the local rescuers Mr Eric Price and his grandchildren, who decided to trace most of the deceased families in 2005.