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Peak District Air Accident Research

Whitley Mk.V T4138 coded KN-H of 77 Squadron RAF, crashed on Arden Great Moor near Osmotherly in the North Yorkshire Moors on the 16th December 1940. The aircraft was outbound to Berlin when one of the aircraft's engines caught fire.

Crew / Passengers	Rank - If Applicable	Position e.g. Pilot	Status
Huburt Harvey J Miller	Pilot Officer	Pilot	Injured
D H Gilbert	Sergeant	Co-pilot	Injured
G Thorpe	Sergeant	Observer	Injured
Cyril Williams	Sergeant	Wireless Operator / Air Gunner	Killed
Albert Edward Hammond	Sergeant	Wireless Operator / Air Gunner	Injured

Three of the crew, P/O Miller, Sgt Gilbert and Sgt Thorpe had previously survived the ditching of Whitley T4151 off the Northumbrian coast a month before this crash.

Very little of the aircraft remains today, on the day we visited the site most of it covered with snow.

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