Photo: Geordie at War Project
The headstone reads:-
Per ardua ad astra.
In loving memory of
George Bolton W/Op Air Gunner
(The rest is obscured by grass)
Sgt. Bolton was serving with 78 Squadron. He was a crew member of Halifax II W1013 EY- which took off from Croft on a mission to Cologne. The aircraft collided with another in Cambridgeshire. Two crew were killed and three injured.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1942; W.R. Chorley; 1994; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 89 X
