Photo: Brian Chandler
1565479 Sergeant
L.E. Garrod
Air Gunner
Royal Air Force
19th April 1944 age 22.
Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt. Garrod was killed when Vickers Wellington X MF200 of 28 O.T.U. (Operational Training Unit) was lost on a training flight. The Wellington crashed some 15 minutes after taking off from Wymeswold, coming down at Normanton-on-Stour, with the loss of all five crew members.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: Vol. 7; Operational Training Units 1940-1947; W.R. Chorley; 2002; Midland Publishing; ISBN 1 85780 132 6, page 287
Lawrence Emmerson Garrod is remembered at Blyth on B42.23
