Photo: B. Chandler
F.E. Haines
Pilot
Royal Canadian Air Force
26th March 1942 age 19
Greater love
hath no man than this
that a man lay down
his life for his friends.
Acknowledgments to S.C. Knox.
Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt. Haines was the pilot of Defiant I N3364 which crashed on patrol from RAF Drem. He lost control in cloud. He was killed. The gunner F/Sgt. J.E. Pelletier of Royal Canadian Air Force baled out 6 miles NW of Morpeth, Northumberland and was injured.
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.
Frank Ernest Haines is remembered in Chevington on C27.03 which carries no names but the list was included on the Unveiling Programme.
