Photo: Norman Hood
Mr. Norman Hood has sent in this photo of a memorial in France recording the crew of a Bomber which crashed in 1944
A la Memoire
des aviateurs de la R.A.F.
tombés ici le 3 Juin 1944.
Leonard J.N. Smith R.A.F.
Harry Congreve Caswell R.A.F.
Alexander Young Ferguson R.A.F.
John Thompson R.A.F.
Owen Arkle Teasdale R.A.F.
Campbell Lowrie R.A.F.
Raymond Thomas Hood R.A.F.
Mr. Hood tells that:
"Sergeant Owen Arkle Teasdale was the son of Joseph and Margaret Teasdale of Bedlington and during the War was a RAF Air Gunner on Halifax heavy bombers. He lost his life just before D-Day trying to reach the coast after bombing the main Paris to Normandy railway. He was part of a 7 man crew who were shot down at 0100 3rd June 1944 trying to reach the coast, he was just 20. The navigator was my father."
Sgt. Teasdale was serving with 76 Sqdn. He was a crew member of Halifax III MZ604 MP-W which took off from Holme-on-Spalding-Moor on a mission to Trappes. The aircraft crashed at Longvilliers. One crew member was taken prisoner, the rest did not survive.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1944; W.R. Chorley; 1997; Midland Counties Publications, ISBN 0 904597 91 1
Owen Arkle Teasdale is remembered in Bedlington on B15.02 and B15.08
