Photo: David Sloan
A. Bryan-Smith
Air Gunner
Royal Air Force
15th April 1940
age 28
P/Off. Bryan-Smith was with 49 Squadron and a crew member of Hampden I L4043 EA- which flew on Gardening operation. The aircraft took off from Scampton but ran out of fuel and crash landed on the beach near Ryhope. P/Off Bryan-Smith was the sole fatality.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1939-1940; W.R. Chorley.1992; Midland Publishing; ISBN 0 904597 85 7