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Surrey / Re: Help can anyone find Frederick Trimmer
« on: Wednesday 04 September 19 20:29 BST (UK) »
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Surrey / Re: Help can anyone find Frederick Trimmer
« on: Tuesday 03 September 19 20:12 BST (UK) »
I have the following information which I hope may be of some use to you.
TRIMMER Frederick Herbert George Sgt 1391993 RAFVR 20/11/42 aged 25.
Trimmer was in training at 9 Advanced Flying Unit at RAF Llandwrog, now called Caernarfon Airport. On 20/11/42 he was part of a 5 man crew in an Anson serial number N4981 on a cross country training flight from RAF Penrhos on the Lleyn Peninsular near Pwllheli when after only 25 minutes at around 14:35hrs the aircraft struck Moel Eilio above the village of Betws Garmon. The impact was heard by people in the village and they quickly located the crash site. Normally a search party would have been sent out by 9 (O)AFU from Llandwrog but this team was already occupied with the search for another aircraft which had also been lost in the area. It fell to personnel from the RAF bomb storage depot at Llanberis to attend the scene and recover the bodies of the crew. They arrived at 18:00hrs and found that one of the crew had survived the crash but had died from the effects of shock and exposure as they arrived. The following day by 9 (O)AFU recovered the five bodies.
Buried Englefield Green Cemetery, Surrey, Plot 17. Grave 536.
The son of James Herbert and Eva Trimmer of Egham.
TRIMMER joined the Metropolitan Police on 8/3/37. His unique Warrant Number was 125720. He was a Police Constable on H Division, which is the Tower Hamlets area of East London.
Regards
Kevin
TRIMMER Frederick Herbert George Sgt 1391993 RAFVR 20/11/42 aged 25.
Trimmer was in training at 9 Advanced Flying Unit at RAF Llandwrog, now called Caernarfon Airport. On 20/11/42 he was part of a 5 man crew in an Anson serial number N4981 on a cross country training flight from RAF Penrhos on the Lleyn Peninsular near Pwllheli when after only 25 minutes at around 14:35hrs the aircraft struck Moel Eilio above the village of Betws Garmon. The impact was heard by people in the village and they quickly located the crash site. Normally a search party would have been sent out by 9 (O)AFU from Llandwrog but this team was already occupied with the search for another aircraft which had also been lost in the area. It fell to personnel from the RAF bomb storage depot at Llanberis to attend the scene and recover the bodies of the crew. They arrived at 18:00hrs and found that one of the crew had survived the crash but had died from the effects of shock and exposure as they arrived. The following day by 9 (O)AFU recovered the five bodies.
Buried Englefield Green Cemetery, Surrey, Plot 17. Grave 536.
The son of James Herbert and Eva Trimmer of Egham.
TRIMMER joined the Metropolitan Police on 8/3/37. His unique Warrant Number was 125720. He was a Police Constable on H Division, which is the Tower Hamlets area of East London.
Regards
Kevin
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