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Signalman Leslie Raymond Dyer

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Signalman Leslie Raymond Dyer

Birth
Death
22 Nov 1945
Buckland St Mary, South Somerset District, Somerset, England
Burial
Brighton, Brighton and Hove Unitary Authority, East Sussex, England Add to Map
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14939236 Signalman Leslie Raymond Dyer
Royal Corps of Signals
Died age 19

Liberator VIII – Serial KH125 – 53 Sqdn

This plane on its way to India with a Polish crew left Merryfield aerodrome near Ilminster one foggy morning & failed to gain sufficient height & crashed into a field at Castle farm Buckland St Mary in Somerset killing 26 occupants immediately & 1 on the way to hospital.

Crew on board:

F/Sgt Jan Jan Brzenski (F/Eng)

F/O Stanislaw Kleybor(Nav) DFC

F/Lt Leopold Mielecki (Pilot)

F/O Antoni Wize(W/Op)

F/O Myers, Gordon (Co-Pilot)

A G Quick

P J Biles

C H Buck

H W G Staunton

A J Birch

R C Anderson

R O Anderson

J H Attwood

D B Benjamin

J Brewis

W A Charlton

A E Clark

L J Curry

H Donovan

L H Downes

L R Dyer

P Fairbairn

P Fairbairn

W Gent

O Williams

R E C Williams

B W Fox
14939236 Signalman Leslie Raymond Dyer
Royal Corps of Signals
Died age 19

Liberator VIII – Serial KH125 – 53 Sqdn

This plane on its way to India with a Polish crew left Merryfield aerodrome near Ilminster one foggy morning & failed to gain sufficient height & crashed into a field at Castle farm Buckland St Mary in Somerset killing 26 occupants immediately & 1 on the way to hospital.

Crew on board:

F/Sgt Jan Jan Brzenski (F/Eng)

F/O Stanislaw Kleybor(Nav) DFC

F/Lt Leopold Mielecki (Pilot)

F/O Antoni Wize(W/Op)

F/O Myers, Gordon (Co-Pilot)

A G Quick

P J Biles

C H Buck

H W G Staunton

A J Birch

R C Anderson

R O Anderson

J H Attwood

D B Benjamin

J Brewis

W A Charlton

A E Clark

L J Curry

H Donovan

L H Downes

L R Dyer

P Fairbairn

P Fairbairn

W Gent

O Williams

R E C Williams

B W Fox

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