Photo: B. Chandler
The headstone reads:
In
loving memory of
Cuthbert Edward
Shield
R.A.F. V.R.
aged 26 years
killed on active service
Nov. 10th 1941.
Sgt. Shield was serving with 217 Squadron, Coastal Command. He was a crew member of Beaufort I l9971 which took off from Manston on a training flight. It flew into the ground in cloud. All four crew were killed.
Royal Air Force Coastal Command Losses of the Second World War: Vol.1: Aircraft and Crew Losses 1939-1941; Ross McNeill; 2003; Midland Publishing; ISBN 1 85780 128 8
Cuthbert Edward Shield is remembered in Belford on B16.01 and B16.02 and in Durham on D47.128
