Photo: Brian Chandler

Simon Glancey has submitted the following:

Sgt. Nesbit was killed when Vickers Wellington III BK246 of 16 O.T.U. (Operational Training Unit) was lost on a training flight. The Wellington had left R.A.F. Upper Heyford at 20.35 for a high level bombing exercise. It contacted base to report a malfunctioning airspeed indicator, and at 21.50 it crashed at Kirtlington, 9 miles NNW of Oxford, with the loss of all seven 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 209

James Robert Nesbit is remembered in Blyth on B42.23

The CWGC entry for Sergeant Nesbit