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He was serving with No.3 (Coastal) Operation Training Unit and was a crew member of Vickers Wellington Ic DV927-F which was taking part in a training exercise from R.A.F. Cranwell. The aircraft crashed killing all the crew.

Rev. David Youngson has submitted the following:

46343 Flying Officer Brian Herbert BAILEY
Royal Air Force

The son of Edgar George and Jean Mary Bailey of Stockton-on-Tees. A Sergeant he was Commissioned Flying Officer on the 4th August 1941 (London Gazette 12th September 1941). He was Mentioned in Despatches. He died on the 26th January 1943 aged 21 and is buried in Durham Road Cemetery, Stockton on Tees, Grave Reference C.C.25. His name appears in the Book of Remembrance 1939-1945 in Stockton Parish Church.

Editor’s note: He was part of the crew of a Wellington Bomber 30TU DV27 which crashed at Swineshead, near Boston, Lincolnshire where his death was recorded.

In the hangar at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre at East Kirkby is a display about the crash.

Brian Herbert Bailey is remembered in Stockton on S138.19a and S138.52

Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre
The CWGC entry for Flying Officer Bailey