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| Crew / Passengers | Rank - If Applicable | Position e.g. Pilot | Status |
| Colwyn Parker Angus | Flight Sergeant (RAAF) | Pilot | Killed |
| Maurice Schneider | Sergeant | Navigator | Killed |
| John Walter Melhuish | Sergeant | Bomb Aimer | Killed |
| Kenneth Richard Ridehalgh | Sergeant | Wireless Operator | Killed |
The aircraft had taken off from Millom in southwest Cumbria for a navigation and bombing exercise, while flying south over the mountains of southern Scotland the aircraft struck the snow covered northern slope of Craigronald. The crash was reported fairly quickly and a Mountain Rescue Team was sent out form Wigtown, when they arrived they found 1 crew member alive but he died before reaching hospital.
Above are a number of yellow painted panels and one of the main undercarriage assemblies where EG693 crashed.
One of the Cheetah engines lies on the slope among the other wreckage.
A close view of the engine shown in the previous image.
The other Cheetah lies almost entirely buried in a boggy stream at the upper end of the crash site.
Flight Sergeant Angus was buried at Newton Stewart Cemetery 2 days after the crash, above is his grave.