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Mr Alfred Bridgeman |
Born |
Age |
Address |
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73 |
Rawlings Farm,
Cocklebury |
Date of Death |
Where killed |
Cause of Death |
09/11/1943 |
Rawlings Farm,
Cocklebury |
Aircraft accident |
Cemetery |
Plot |
Country |
Chippenham (London Road) Cemetery |
Church Lawn 54 |
England |
Next of Kin |
Next of kin address |
Town |
Marguerite Kate Mary Bridgeman |
Rawlings Farm,
Cocklebury |
Chippenham |
Notes |
of Rawlings Farm,
Cocklebury, Langley Burrell Without. Son of the late William and Christiana
Bridgeman, of Oare, Pewsey; husband of Marguerite Kate Mary Bridgeman. Died
at Rawlings Farm.
Bridgeman was killed when an RAF aircraft crashed onto his house at Rawlings
Farm. The pilot and navigator of the Mosquito were both killed. The aircraft
had been on fire and ploughed across the ground carrying away a cowshed and
stable before coming to rest in the back of the house before bursting into
flames.
Mrs Bridgeman managed to escape through the front of the house in a very
dazed condition with the aid of 2 of the farm workers, Miss Avrice Dickinson
and Harold Whitmarsh. Mr Bridgeman was trapped under burning debris. He had
apparently been walking along a passage way when the aircraft hit the
building.
Mosquito HK401 of 301 (Ferry Training Unit) suffered an engine failure then
loss of control then crashed at Rawlings Farm.
Pilot - Flt Sgt L Mayhew |
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14/01/2011
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