Photo: James Pasby
S Fairhurst
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Royal Air Force
20th October 1943 Age 25
He rose
responsive to the call
and left his task
his gains his all
Sgt. Fairhurst was serving with 29 O.T.U. He was a crew member of Wellington III BK549-N which took off from Bruntingthorpe on a Bullseye training exercise. The aircraft crashed near Basingstoke following an uncontrollable fire in the starboard engine, killing all six crew.
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.
He is remembered in Percy Main on P22.02, in Monkwearmouth on M46.02d page 41, and at Westoe on W101.08
