FA - January 2023 Memorial Plaque Addition To The Wing Airfield Memorial.
On the 9th January 2023 David King was Honoured to be able to install a memorial plaque at the Wing Airfield Memorial, in memory of the crew of 26 O.T.U. Wellington Ic X9786, lost on a mission to Bremen 13th/14th September 1942. The Plaque was provided and sponsored by Jan Halvorson, American cousin of Pilot Officer Robert Leo Hage, Son of Leonerd and Blanche Betts Hage, of Missoula, Montana, U.S.A. Robert was the pilot of Wellington X9786. The plaque also commemorates the other 3 members of Robert’s crew who were killed, Sergeant (Obs.) Alexander Knox Smith, Sergeant (Obs.) Kenneth David Jones and Sergeant (W.Op.Air Gnr.) Donald Fisher. Also remembered is the sole survivor of the crash W/O2 John A. Gartlan. Many thanks to all involved in particular our good friend Nick Ellins.