Photo: B. Chandler

Acknowledgments: S.C. Knox

Simon Glancey has provided the following:

Flying Officer Findlay was a crew member of Beaufighter 1f R2473 which was on a normal circuit and approach when it dived into the ground at an angle of 45º three miles SW of Acklington, killing the two crew, the other being Edwin K. Vickers

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.

Hugh John Findlay is remembered in Chevington on C27.03 which carries no names but the list was included on the Unveiling Programme, and on C27.04

The CWGC entry for Flying Officer Findlay