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BYERS GREEN

Raw, A., Sgt., 1941
In Spennymoor Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave of 748237 Sergeant Albert Raw, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died 20/10/1941.

Simon Glancey has submitted the following:

Sgt. Raw was the pilot of Handley Page Hampden I P2127 of 12 Maintenance Unit, which crashed on approach to R.A.F. Kirkbride on an air test. It came down at Little Bampton, Cumberland, at 14.20, and caught fire, killing Sgt. Raw and a civilian engine fitter, Mr. Alan Robson.
The Hampden File; Harry Moyle; 1989; Air Britain; ISBN 978085130128, page 110

Albert Raw is remembered at Byers Green on B157.01 and B157.02 and at Spennymoor on S131.02 and S131.04


The CWGC entry for Sergeant Raw

If you know more about this person, please send the details to janet@newmp.org.uk