Photo: Brian Chandler
The headstone reads:
John Patterson
Sgt. Observer. R.A.F. (V.R.)
Beloved son
(the rest is obscured)
Sgt. Patterson was serving with 26 O.T.U. He was a crew member of Wellington IC Z8950 which took off on a night bombing training exercise. The aircraft was involved in a mid-air collision with another Wellington in Buckinghamshire. All 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
He is remembered at Ashington on A17.01 and A17.27 and in RAF Book of Remembrance page 88
