Photo: B. Chandler
The headstone reads:
In loving memory of
Sergt. Robert Meikle
Killed in action
26th Nov. 1940 aged 23 years.
Also his parents
David Meikle 1879-1944
Jane Isabella Meikle 1882-1933
Sergeant Meikle was serving with 105 Squadron. He was a crew member of Blenheim IV T1886 GB which took off from Swanton Morley on a mission to Cologne. The aircraft crashed in Cheshire after being given permission to land.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1939-1940; W.R. Chorley; 1992; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 85 7
Robert Meikle is remembered at Fenham on F31.05 and F31.22 and at Monkwearmouth in M46.02 page 77.