Photo: Pam Hogg
R. Reed
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Royal Air Force
28th October 1944 age 20.
In loving memory of Robert
dearly loved only son
of Robert and Annie Reed.
Sergeant Reed was serving with 1661 Heavy Conversion Unit (HCU). He was a crew member of Stirling III EE907 –X which took off from Winthorpe on a night training exercise which involved flying home with one engine switched off. The weather at Winthorpe caused a diversion to Swinderby, during which the other engines switched off. The aircraft crashed near Norton Disney. Three crew members died and five were injured.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses: Vol. 8; Heavy Conversion Units and Miscellaneous Units, 1939-1947;W.R. Chorley; 2003; Midland Publishing; ISBN 1 85780 156 3.
Robert Reed is remembered in Hartlepool on H115.41, in West Hartlepool on W111.55, in the list of 1939-1945 Military and Civilians and in the RAF Book of Remembrance
