Sergeant (pilot) John Bernard Hebditch, 1578071
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- Unit - Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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- Date of Birth -
- Died - 01/12/1943
- Age - 24
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ContributeSource: Leicestershire War Memorials Project. Sgt Hebditch was on a training flight one late November evening in 1943 with Sgt Victor Wilson. This information is taken from the flight log at RAF Montrose (it survives in the museum), It is not known who was at the controls but it appears they were on a circuit in their Airspeed Oxford and descending for final approach when they flew into the top of a hill.
The aircraft clipped the hilltop and flipped over. Both pilots were found in the wreckage some hours later.
Victor is buried in a grave in his home town of Grantham.
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Submitted in 2015 by P. Wilson, nephew of Sgt. Victor Wilson
Husband of Phyllis and eldest son of Bernard and Beatrice Hebditch of Lillesdon Court (from gravestone, information from R Thompson 24th April 2022).
- Conflict - World War II
- Burial Place - N Of Church, North Curry (ss. Peter And Paul) Churchyard
- Other Memorials - Loughborough Carillon, War Memorial Bell Tower
