Easington Colliery
Balkholme: Tony HIbberd
Balkholme: Tony HIbberd
Balkholme: Tony HIbberd
Balkholme: Tony HIbberd
E. Roxby
Flight Engineer
Royal Air Force
21st July 1944 Age 22.
He flew by night
Our homes to save
He died a hero
One of the brave, at rest
A stone vase reads:
Roxby
At rest.
Sgt. Roxby was serving with 578 Squadron. He was a crew member of Halifax III LK834 LE-E which left Burn on a mission to Bottrop. On the return in thick cloud, the aircraft collided with another, both aircraft landing near Goole. None survived.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1944; W.R. Chorley; 1997; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 91 1
Tony Hibberd has supplied photos of a memorial at the crash site at Balkholme, East Yorkshire.
Erected in 2006, it consists of a metal column surmounted by aircraft silhouettes, and has a plaque acknowledging the help received, and another listing the crewmen who died.
Edward Roxby is remembered at Easington Colliery on E52.01
