Edwin Moon: Southampton Aviation Pioneer & War Hero
On 29 April 1920, Edwin Rowland Moon from Southampton – pilot, inventor, and war hero – was killed in a flying accident at Felixstowe. He…
On 29 April 1920, Edwin Rowland Moon from Southampton – pilot, inventor, and war hero – was killed in a flying accident at Felixstowe. He…
In the early hours of 17 April 1942, eighteen-year-old Private Nora Caveney was killed by a flying piece of shrapnel whilst working on the predictor…
This article is dedicated to the memory of Wing Commander Ernest Reginald Baker DSO,DFC and Bar (known as Reg Baker). He was a successful fighter…
I’ve researched many interesting human stories connected to the New Forest during the Second World War, but one of the most intriguing and somewhat ironic…
At half past midnight on the 15th of December 1941, four men took off in a Handley Page Hampden twin-engine medium bomber from RAF Balderton, an…
On 12 December 1947, Lieutenant Anthony Peter Hanbury Tracy of the Royal Navy, was killed when the Seafire he was piloting, crashed into the Solent…
The British Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited island in the world. Its closest inhabited neighbour is the island of…
On the 18th of October 1942, a terrible accident happened near South Ruislip train station in Uxbridge, Middlesex, resulting in the deaths of 21 people, with…
On the 10th of October 1944, a de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito FB Mk VI crashed in a field off Lower Pennington Lane, near Lymington. Flight Sergeant…