Photo: Brian Chandler
R.F. Davison
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Royal Air Force
8th April 1943 age 28
He died
that we might live.
Sgt. Davison was serving with 1654 HCU. He was a crew member of Lancaster I L7545 which took off from Wigsley on an evening training sortie. The aircraft collided with another, both aircraft ended up crashing 2 miles south-east of Melton Mowbray. No members of either crew survived.
Sgt Davison’s name is given as Davison in the Index and Davidson in the entry in:
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses Volume 8 Heavy Conversion Units and Miscellaneous Units 1939-1947; W.R. Chorley; 2003; ISBN 1 85780 156 3
Robert Fairbairn Davison is remembered at Felton on F14.01 and in Roll of Honour page 31
