Photo: Brian Chandler
In Seghill (Holy Trinity) Churchyard) is a family headstone which reads:
(The top line cannot be read from the photo)
Hannah Ellison
1886-1943
P/O R.C. Ellison R.C.A.F. R.A.
Son of the above
Killed in action 11-12 June 1943.
Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
P/O Ellison was the pilot of Vickers Wellington X HZ355 AL-G of 429 (R.C.A.F.) Squadron, which was lost on a mission to Dusseldorf. It was shot down by a Luftwaffe night fighter flown by Ofw. Reinhard Kollak, of III./NJG4, and crashed some 9 miles east south east of Limburg. Of the five crew, only Ellison was killed - the other four ended up as P.o.W.s.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943;W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3, page 179
Richard Campbell Ellison is remembered in Blyth on B42.19 and at New Hartley on N50.03 and N50.04.
