ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 2124
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| Date: | Wednesday 4 November 1936 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | Hawker Audax Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 13 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | K2009 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Manor Farm, Chitterne, 7 miles east of Warminster, Wiltshire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Old Sarum, Salisbury, Wiltshire |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Hawker Audax Mk.1 K2009, 13 Sqaudron, RAF Old Sarum: Written off (destroyed) 4/11/36 when flew into the ground avoiding a windmill during gun camera practice at Chitterne, seven miles east of Warminster, Wiltshire. Both crew - Pilot Officer Roy Francis See (pilot, aged 21) and AC Harold George Gray (air gunner, aged 24) - killed. An official communiqué stated :- “The Air Ministry regrets to announce that Pilot Officer Roy Francis See and Aircraftman (First Class) Harold George Gray lost their lives in an accident which occurred near Codford, Wiltshire, yesterday to an aircraft of No. 13 Army Co-operation Squadron, Old Sarum.” It is understood that See was a London man and that Gray’s home was in Dorsetshire.
According to a report on the local parish history website (see link #3)
"Air Crash at Chitterne
On 4th November 1936 an aeroplane crashed on the outskirts of Chitterne and two airmen were killed. Pilot Officer Roy Francis See and AC1 Harold George Gray were flying the Hawker Audax from 13 Squadron based at Old Sarum on camera gun practice, when they crashed avoiding a windmill. The windmill was a ‘Woodcock’ Windpump, made by the John Wallis Titt company and installed in 1905 on Charlie Collins’ Manor Farm land to the left of the road to Tilshead. Several village children were told off for going to see the crash site when they should have been at school!"
Flying Officer Roy Francis See is buried at Acton Cemetery, Middlesex, England
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1976)
2. The Glasgow Herald, 5th November, 1936
3. The Times, Thursday 5th November, 1936
4. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1937.htm
5. http://www.chitterne.com/history/aircrash.html
6. http://www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/Items/Codford/Codford%20-%20RAF%20Air%20Crash%201936.pdf
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 16-Feb-2008 13:40 | JINX | Added |
| 06-Dec-2017 21:13 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 07-Dec-2017 17:26 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 06-Apr-2018 22:44 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 06-Apr-2018 22:44 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 08-Apr-2018 16:56 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 01-Nov-2018 17:52 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
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