Photo: B. Chandler
H.B. Wooler
(of Jamaica)
Pilot
Royal Air Force
8th January 1942 age 22
In loving memory of Boydie
Acknowledgments to S.C. Knox.
Simon Glancey has provided the following:
Pilot Officer Wooler was on a training mission in Beaufighter IIf T3037 which crashed due to loss of control in cloud with a subsequent spin into the ground. The aircraft was engaged on a GCI ( Ground Controlled Interception) Exercise at the time. The crash occurred at Stobswood Colliery near Widdrington.
The loss card states:
"INSTRUMENTS"
Lost control in clouds. Spun into ground.O/C: Loss control whilst flying by instrumentsAOC: Not possible to determine whether the accident wascaused by faulty instrument flying or an instrumentfailure owing to the extensive damage of the a/c.
Northumberland Aviation Diary: Aviation Incidents from 17901999 ; 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.
Air Crash Northumberland Gray, Corbett, Shipley & Anderson, 2008, Countryside Books, ISBN 978 1 84674 112 8. He was in a Bristol Beaufighter from R.A.F. Acklington which crashed at Widdrington).
Herbert Basil Wooler is remembered in Chevington on C27.03 which carries no names but the list was included on the Unveiling Programme.
