Photo: Brian Chandler
The headstone reads:
To the lovely memory
Of my husband
William Appleby, Pilot Officer, R.A.F.
Who was killed on active service on 23rd July 1940
He was valiant.
He was serving with 269 Squadron in Coastal Command. He was a crew member of Hudson J P5152 UA-J which took off from Wick and crashed in Wales. All four crew were killed.
Royal Air Force Coastal Command Losses of the Second World War: Vol.1: Aircraft and Crew Losses 1939-1941; Ross McNeill; 2003; Midland Publishing; ISBN 1 85780 128 8
William Appleby is remembered in Morpeth on M17.01, M17.06, M17.07 and M17.12 and in a RAF Book of Remembrance
