Originally Posted by
madcat11
Hello All,
I’m researching an Engineer from The Air Ministry who passed away on 15th Aug 1944. His name is Frederick William Thomas Griffin Connell, or words to that effect. CWGC has him registered as buried in Newmarket District but I have seen a headstone with his name on it in CambridgeCity Cemetery. From what I’ve uncovered so far, he may have died in an air crash at Warbraham Farm, Heath Road, Burwell, Cambs. Question is this: Why does CWGC have him buried in Newmarket? What were the circumstances surrounding the crash.
All help gratefully received!
Thankyou.
Those sound like the circumstances of the accident to Oxford L4635, which dived into the ground after an engine caught fire on approach to RAF Newmarket (just SE of Warbraham Mains Farm) on that date.