Strange that this thread should be resurrected now...
http://www.sheffieldtoday.net/ViewAr...icleID=1026481
13 May 2005
Memorial stone to pilot who crashed in Peak District:
RELATIVES of a tragic teenage pilot who died when his jet fighter crashed into a Peak District farm 50 years ago joined villagers for the unveiling of a stone in his memory.
Surviving relatives of forgotten pilot Officer Robert Anthony Tritton, aged just 19 at the time of his death, gathered in the hamlet of Millthorpe near Holmesfield in North Derbyshire yesterday for a memorial ceremony - on the 50th anniversary of the crash.
Officer Tritton's sister Marianne Cambridge was just 12 at the time of the accident and still has vivid memories of the news filtering through.
She said: "I remember the telegraph coming through - that's how we found out - and my mother just collapsed. It was just unbelieveable really. We were all absolutely devastated."
The teenage pilot was flying a Gloster Meteor fighter jet based at RAF Worksop when he crashed into Brookside Farm on Mill Lane, Millthorpe, at 3.25pm on May 12, 1955.