Photo: James Pasby
The headstone reads:
In loving memory of
my dear husband
Sgt. Arthur Wilson Savage, A.G. R.A.F.
killed on active service Jan. 17th 1942
aged 29 years.
He was serving with 27 OTU. He was a crew member of Wellington IC X9706 which took off from Lichfield on a training exercise. The aircraft crashed in poor weather after the compass had failed and there was uncertainty of their position. All the crew were killed.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses Volume 7: Operational Training Units 1940-1947; W.R. Chorley; 2002; Midland Publishing; ISBN 1 85780 132 6.
