Photo: Geordie at War Project
D. McTeer
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Royal Air Force
5th April 1944 age 20
In loving memory
Of our dear son
P/Officer McTeer was serving with 11 O.T.U. He was a crew member of Wellington X LN482 OP-B which took off from Oakley on a cross-country training exercise. The aircraft went out of control in cloud and broke up, killing all six crew.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: Vol. 7; Operational Training Units 1940-1947; W.R. Chorley; 2002; Midland Publishing; ISBN 1 85780 132 6
Donald McTeer is remembered in an RAF Book of Remembrance page 74.
