Photo: B. Chandler
D.T. Chadd
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner
Royal Air Force
23rd July 1946 age 23
Thus I thank my God
upon every remembrance
of you.
Acknowledgments to S.C. Knox.
Simon Glancey has provided the following:
Fl.Lieut. Chadd was a crew member of Warwick VI HG136 which was en route to Brackla in Fife to be scrapped when it crashed about one mile west of Cheviot summit, within sight of Auchope Cairn. The wreckage and bodies of the three crew members were found by hill walkers two days after the crash. Substantial parts of the aircraft, including an engine, can still be seen today, a poignant legacy of the war. The crash was attributed to the plane flying an incorrect route when in fact it should have followed the coastline.
Also killed were F/L K F Wyeth and F/O Cody
Northumberland Aviation Diary: Aviation Incidents from 1790-1999 ; Derek Walton; Norav Publications; 1999; ISBN 0 9536189 0 0
Dennis Thomas Chadd is remembered in Chevington on C27.03 which carries no names but the list was included on the Unveiling Programme.
See also: Aviation Museum, Bamburgh