Hunt Photo: B. Chandler

Acknowledgments to S.C. Knox.

Simon Glancey has offered the following:

Laurence Warren Hunt was the pilot of Wellington 1c Z1078 JN- which took off from Snaith at 1723 on a mission to Hamburg.

They encountered heavy snow showers while returning to base and crashed 2355 into high ground at West Hill, just to the NNW of the Cheviot. Sgt Hunt RNZAF and Sgt Maple died from their injuries.

Sgt L W Hunt – injured
P/O B A McDonald RCAF – injured
Sgt T W Irving RNZAF – killed
Sgt F G Maple – injured
Sgt W H Allworth – injured
Sgt C F Glover – injured

Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1942; W.R. Chorley; Midland Counties Publications, 1994; ISBN 0 904597 89 x

Their Corner of a Foreign Field A Guide and Tribute to the Commonwealth and Exiled Airmen who are buried in the Scottish Border; Peter Clark; 2002; Glen Graphic, ISBN 190003850 1 includes a photo.

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

Laurence Warren Hunt is remembered in Chevington on C27.03 which carries no names but the list was included on the Unveiling Programme.

He is also named on the memorial in the College Valley C28.03

The CWGC entry for Sergeant Hunt