Photo: Kevin Milburn
my dear husband
Pilot.Sgt. Frederick Gray, R.A.F.
killed on active service 20th Feb. 1941
aged 25 years.
Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
He was flying in Blenheim V5746 of No.3 Radio School which crashed after a collision on take -off at The Aerodrome, Monkton (R.A.F. Prestwick). The cause of death was a fractured skull and extensive severe burns.
He was aged 25; his birth was registered at Gateshead, June 1915. His father was Edward Bill Gray, a dairyman, and his mother was Mary, nee Parkin.
He was married in June 1940 to Margaret Elizabeth Mensforth, whose birth was registered at Newcastle in September 1917.
Sources: Scotland's People website Statutory Deaths Register. Free BMD website.
Frederick Gray is remembered in Elswick on E35.03
