Photo: B. Chandler
D. McI. Gray
Pilot
Royal Air Force
5th November 1940 age 21
Who falls for love of God
shall rise a star.
Acknowledgments to S.C. Knox.
Simon Glancey has provided the following:
P/O Donald McIntosh Gray joined No 610 Squadron on the 27/08/1940. He was shot down over Dover 24/08/1940 and crash landed near Shepherdswell in Spitfire X4102 "K". He was admitted to Waldershaw Hospital on 25/08/40 with injuries after being wounded and then transferred to Royal Masonic Hospital on 28/08/40.
He was killed in a flying accident in Spitfire I X4011 DW-Q on 05/11/40, aged 21.
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
He is remembered in Chevington on C27.03 which carries no names but the list was included on the Unveiling Programme, and on C27.04