Photo: Dave Donaghy
Photo: Dave Donaghy
Photo: Tony Hibberd
Photo: Tony Hibberd
Photo: Tony Hibberd
The family headstone reads:-
In loving
memory of
our dear son
Pilot Officer
Norman Caffery
who was killed while
on operational duties
20th February 1944
aged 21 years
Also mother of the above
Margaret Ann Caffery
who died 15th April 1951
Aged 63 years
Left hand side
In loving
memory of
John Edward
Caffery
Husband of
Margaret Ann
Father of
Norman
Died 27 Mar. 1953
Aged 65 years
Right hand side
In loving
memory of
Lawrence Caffery
son of
John Edward
and Margaret Ann
Caffery
Brother to
Norman and Eunice
Died Durham
21 February 2015
Aged 87 years
P/Off. Caffery was serving with 158 Sqdn. He was a member of the crew of Halifax III HX351 NP-S which took off from Lissett on a mission to Leipzig. The aircraft crashed near Hornsea, killing all the crew.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1944; W.R. Chorley; 1997; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 91 1
The following has been submitted by Tony Hibberd.
The photos of the scroll and the church at Atwick are reproduced by Dave Donaghy.
In Atwick Church, East Yorkshire, is a scroll commemorating the crash. It includes the following:
The aircraft was just over the coast and due to an emergency it turned towards its base at Lissett. It crashed en route.
Every member of the crew lost their lives. The official location of the site is two miles NN West of Hornsea, East Yorkshire.
Mr. Ray Coates of Atwick and a Royal Airforce Pilot, Brian Gillard of Bransholme, Hull initially worked on the crash site making a memorial plot. They, and their families have, over the years, dedicated themselves to this site.
A memorial plaque was placed near the crash in 1944. In 1966 it was decided to move the memorial to a site "near the field gate" at Atwick. A re-dedication was held by the vicar of Atwick at this time.
Norman Caffery is remembered at Kimblesworth on K24.02
