Photo: B. Chandler

Acknowledgments to S.C. Knox.

Simon Glancey has provided the following:

PIlot Officer Austin was a crew member of Whitley V Z6932 ZA- which was carrying out an air test. The aircraft landed at Acklington airfield after becoming lost in poor visibility. On leaving to return to Leeming, the Whitley flew into h/t cables, crashed and burst into flames. The rest of the crew were:

Sgt W Stuart RCAF – killed
P/O R S Austin – killed
Sgt P W Bryant – killed
Sgt Whitlock – injured

Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1941 W.R. Chorley; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 87 3.

Northumberland Aviation Diary: Aviation Incidents from 1790-1999 ; Derek Walton; Norav Publications; 1999; ISBN 0 9536189 0 0

"In This Quiet Lane" Chevington and Broomhill in World War Two ; J.H. Hardy; 200; Glen Graphics; ISBN 1 900038 75 7

Their Corner Of A Foreign Field: a guide and tribute to the Commonwealth and exiled airmen who are buried in the Scottish border; Clark, Peter, Glen Graphics, 2002. ISBN 1 900038 50 1.

Richard Scott Austin is remembered in Chevington on C27.03 this bears no names but these were included in the Unveiling Programme.

The CWGC entry for Pilot Officer Austin