Sgt. Pattison was serving with 166 Sqdn. He was a crew member of Lancaster I PA 236 AS-B2 which took off on a ferry flight and crashed as it was coming in to land at Kirmington airfield.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1945; W.R. Chorley; 1998; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 92 X.
He is remembered in Heaton Grammar School H91.02