Vickers Wellington Mk.IC DV718 of No.11 OTU, crashed on Riggs Moor, Blake Hill near Kettlewell on the 2nd / 3rd September 1942

Vickers Wellington Mk.X at the Royal Air Force Museum

 

George Francis Ridgway Sergeant Pilot Killed
Donald Harrison Lyne Pilot Officer Navigator Injured
Willie Allinson Sergeant Bomb Aimer Killed
Howard William Spencer Sergeant Wireless Operator Killed
Paul McLarnon Sergeant Air gunner Killed

 

The crew of DV718 were similarly tasked to the crew of Z8808, but had taken off from RAF Bassingbourne to complete a night cross country navigation flight. During the flight the crew of DV718 became disorientated in low cloud and crashed on the summit of Blake Hill, an outlier of Great Whernside in the Yorkshire Dales, where the aircraft was destroyed by fire.

Crash site of Wellington DV718 on Blake Hill, Great Whernside, Kettlewell, Yorkshire
A photo of Alan stood next to part of either the wing structure or tail structure.
Crash site of Wellington DV718 on Blake Hill, Great Whernside, Kettlewell, Yorkshire
Above is the area where DV718 burned out.