Sergeant (Navigator)
GOOD, LESLIE GEORGE
Service Number 1808623
Died 14/01/1945
Aged 20
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Son of Edward George and Lilian Good, of Forest Gate.
14th January 1945 At 6:05pm The Wellington Bomber took off from RAF Wing in Buckinghamshire on an evening cross-country training exercise.
The route they flew the bomber was to nearby Northampton in Northamptonshire, then to the coastal town of Cromer in Norfolk. They would continue flying out across the North Sea until Sergeant Good the Navigator informed the Flying Officer Chobaniuk the Pilot that they had reached a point where they would turn the bomber around and head back along the same route for the return journey, while maintaining radio silence to simulate a bombing raid over Germany.
At 11:40pm Flying Officer Chobaniuk made a 'may-day' call on the return flight to RAF Wing due to an engine failure. RAF Nuneaton in Warwickshire picked up the call and lit the runway up for an emergency landing. Two minutes after the call was received, the port wing-tip hit the ground sending the bomber cartwheeling in the direction of Holt Burn, a stream that divides Holt House Farm and Sketchley Hill Farm that is just south of Hinckley in Leicestershire. The bomber broke up on impact with the ground.
A local farm worker named Raven who was living nearby at Sketchley thought he had heard a definite bump during the night but did not see anything, so he came to the conclusion that nothing untoward had happened.
15th January 1945 During the morning, Raven went out in to the fields and came across the wreckage of the Wellington Bomber that had come down 200 yards from his home, he found that all six crew had been killed.
The bodies of the six crew were recovered during the day.
Pilot: Flying Officer Nicholas Chobaniuk (J/23790) - Royal Canadian Air Force - Age 25
Navigator: Sergeant Leslie George Good (1808623) - Royal Air Force - Age 20
Air Bomber: Sergeant John Sidney Gunn (1804820) - Royal Air Force - Age 22
Wireless Op/Air Gunner: Sergeant John William McMurdo (R/67119) - Royal Canadian Air Force - Age 33
Air Gunner: Sergeant Charles Dennis Parker (3041583) - Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Age 19
Air Gunner: Sergeant John Thompson (1059098) - Royal Air Force - Age 23
http://www.hinckleypastpresent.org/wellingtonbomber.html
GOOD, LESLIE GEORGE
Service Number 1808623
Died 14/01/1945
Aged 20
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Son of Edward George and Lilian Good, of Forest Gate.
14th January 1945 At 6:05pm The Wellington Bomber took off from RAF Wing in Buckinghamshire on an evening cross-country training exercise.
The route they flew the bomber was to nearby Northampton in Northamptonshire, then to the coastal town of Cromer in Norfolk. They would continue flying out across the North Sea until Sergeant Good the Navigator informed the Flying Officer Chobaniuk the Pilot that they had reached a point where they would turn the bomber around and head back along the same route for the return journey, while maintaining radio silence to simulate a bombing raid over Germany.
At 11:40pm Flying Officer Chobaniuk made a 'may-day' call on the return flight to RAF Wing due to an engine failure. RAF Nuneaton in Warwickshire picked up the call and lit the runway up for an emergency landing. Two minutes after the call was received, the port wing-tip hit the ground sending the bomber cartwheeling in the direction of Holt Burn, a stream that divides Holt House Farm and Sketchley Hill Farm that is just south of Hinckley in Leicestershire. The bomber broke up on impact with the ground.
A local farm worker named Raven who was living nearby at Sketchley thought he had heard a definite bump during the night but did not see anything, so he came to the conclusion that nothing untoward had happened.
15th January 1945 During the morning, Raven went out in to the fields and came across the wreckage of the Wellington Bomber that had come down 200 yards from his home, he found that all six crew had been killed.
The bodies of the six crew were recovered during the day.
Pilot: Flying Officer Nicholas Chobaniuk (J/23790) - Royal Canadian Air Force - Age 25
Navigator: Sergeant Leslie George Good (1808623) - Royal Air Force - Age 20
Air Bomber: Sergeant John Sidney Gunn (1804820) - Royal Air Force - Age 22
Wireless Op/Air Gunner: Sergeant John William McMurdo (R/67119) - Royal Canadian Air Force - Age 33
Air Gunner: Sergeant Charles Dennis Parker (3041583) - Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Age 19
Air Gunner: Sergeant John Thompson (1059098) - Royal Air Force - Age 23
http://www.hinckleypastpresent.org/wellingtonbomber.html
Sergeant (Navigator)
GOOD, LESLIE GEORGE
Service Number 1808623
Died 14/01/1945
Aged 20
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Son of Edward George and Lilian Good, of Forest Gate.
14th January 1945 At 6:05pm The Wellington Bomber took off from RAF Wing in Buckinghamshire on an evening cross-country training exercise.
The route they flew the bomber was to nearby Northampton in Northamptonshire, then to the coastal town of Cromer in Norfolk. They would continue flying out across the North Sea until Sergeant Good the Navigator informed the Flying Officer Chobaniuk the Pilot that they had reached a point where they would turn the bomber around and head back along the same route for the return journey, while maintaining radio silence to simulate a bombing raid over Germany.
At 11:40pm Flying Officer Chobaniuk made a 'may-day' call on the return flight to RAF Wing due to an engine failure. RAF Nuneaton in Warwickshire picked up the call and lit the runway up for an emergency landing. Two minutes after the call was received, the port wing-tip hit the ground sending the bomber cartwheeling in the direction of Holt Burn, a stream that divides Holt House Farm and Sketchley Hill Farm that is just south of Hinckley in Leicestershire. The bomber broke up on impact with the ground.
A local farm worker named Raven who was living nearby at Sketchley thought he had heard a definite bump during the night but did not see anything, so he came to the conclusion that nothing untoward had happened.
15th January 1945 During the morning, Raven went out in to the fields and came across the wreckage of the Wellington Bomber that had come down 200 yards from his home, he found that all six crew had been killed.
The bodies of the six crew were recovered during the day.
Pilot: Flying Officer Nicholas Chobaniuk (J/23790) - Royal Canadian Air Force - Age 25
Navigator: Sergeant Leslie George Good (1808623) - Royal Air Force - Age 20
Air Bomber: Sergeant John Sidney Gunn (1804820) - Royal Air Force - Age 22
Wireless Op/Air Gunner: Sergeant John William McMurdo (R/67119) - Royal Canadian Air Force - Age 33
Air Gunner: Sergeant Charles Dennis Parker (3041583) - Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Age 19
Air Gunner: Sergeant John Thompson (1059098) - Royal Air Force - Age 23
http://www.hinckleypastpresent.org/wellingtonbomber.html
GOOD, LESLIE GEORGE
Service Number 1808623
Died 14/01/1945
Aged 20
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Son of Edward George and Lilian Good, of Forest Gate.
14th January 1945 At 6:05pm The Wellington Bomber took off from RAF Wing in Buckinghamshire on an evening cross-country training exercise.
The route they flew the bomber was to nearby Northampton in Northamptonshire, then to the coastal town of Cromer in Norfolk. They would continue flying out across the North Sea until Sergeant Good the Navigator informed the Flying Officer Chobaniuk the Pilot that they had reached a point where they would turn the bomber around and head back along the same route for the return journey, while maintaining radio silence to simulate a bombing raid over Germany.
At 11:40pm Flying Officer Chobaniuk made a 'may-day' call on the return flight to RAF Wing due to an engine failure. RAF Nuneaton in Warwickshire picked up the call and lit the runway up for an emergency landing. Two minutes after the call was received, the port wing-tip hit the ground sending the bomber cartwheeling in the direction of Holt Burn, a stream that divides Holt House Farm and Sketchley Hill Farm that is just south of Hinckley in Leicestershire. The bomber broke up on impact with the ground.
A local farm worker named Raven who was living nearby at Sketchley thought he had heard a definite bump during the night but did not see anything, so he came to the conclusion that nothing untoward had happened.
15th January 1945 During the morning, Raven went out in to the fields and came across the wreckage of the Wellington Bomber that had come down 200 yards from his home, he found that all six crew had been killed.
The bodies of the six crew were recovered during the day.
Pilot: Flying Officer Nicholas Chobaniuk (J/23790) - Royal Canadian Air Force - Age 25
Navigator: Sergeant Leslie George Good (1808623) - Royal Air Force - Age 20
Air Bomber: Sergeant John Sidney Gunn (1804820) - Royal Air Force - Age 22
Wireless Op/Air Gunner: Sergeant John William McMurdo (R/67119) - Royal Canadian Air Force - Age 33
Air Gunner: Sergeant Charles Dennis Parker (3041583) - Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Age 19
Air Gunner: Sergeant John Thompson (1059098) - Royal Air Force - Age 23
http://www.hinckleypastpresent.org/wellingtonbomber.html
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