I found this looking for something else .... thought it maybe of interest ! BWLCH-Y-RHIW FARMHOUSE At 0146 hrs on 26th January 1943, a Wellington Aircraft, R1461, on a training exercise from R.A.F. Harwell, Berkshire, crashed on this house causing the death of EDWIN WILLIAMS, and his wife ANNIE JANE And the entire crew of the aircraft Sgt. C EDWARDS Sgt. L.C.MUSTON Sgt. G.G.OTTLEY Sgt.B.H.PARKER Sgt.J.S.TODD Shropshire Routes to Roots | World Wars | Aircraft crashes
The aircraft was R1491 of 15 OTU - on navigation exercise, may have hit Coed Coclior, and fractured fule lines, as witnesses reported the aircraft in flames. R1461 was lost on the night of 10/11 May 1941 with 40 Squadron on a mission to Hamburg
