ricardian
3rd Aug 2013, 19:19
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has completed a project to mark the crash site of an RAF crew killed in the Assynt area during the Second World War.
Pilot Officer William Drew, Sergeant Jack Emery, Sergeant Harold Arthur Tompsett, Flying Officer James Henry Steyn (DFC), Sergeant Charles McPherson Mitchell and Flight Sergeant Thomas Brendon Kenny were killed when their Anson plane crashed on Ben More Assynt in April 1941.
Full report here (http://www.northern-times.co.uk/News/New-cairn-erected-in-Assynt-to-mark-site-where-six-airmen-lost-their-lives-01082013.htm)
Pilot Officer William Drew, Sergeant Jack Emery, Sergeant Harold Arthur Tompsett, Flying Officer James Henry Steyn (DFC), Sergeant Charles McPherson Mitchell and Flight Sergeant Thomas Brendon Kenny were killed when their Anson plane crashed on Ben More Assynt in April 1941.
Full report here (http://www.northern-times.co.uk/News/New-cairn-erected-in-Assynt-to-mark-site-where-six-airmen-lost-their-lives-01082013.htm)