ADAMS,Flying Offr. John Edmund, 197688. R.A.F. (V.R.). 245 Sqdn. 20th November, 1945. Age 21. Son of John Buchanan Adams and Annie Bertha Adams of Newcastle-on-Tyne. Panel 266.
**HIS FATHER: John Buchanan Adams, age 81, b. 1 Oct 1888, d. 1st Quarter, 1970, Durham eastern. Source: General Register Office; United Kingdom; Volume: 1a; Page: 1048.**
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This is a transcription of an unnamed newspaper article posted to an ancestry tree for another R.A.F. service man. The date being so close, and that the article states he died later - 20 Nov vs 16 Nov this may be the unnamed 2nd survivor. Others, according to family were:
(1) Flight Sergeant Douglas Frederick Hamblett
(2) Flight Sergeant Finlay Urquhart
(3) Flying Officer John Adams
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NEWSPAPER: - Death Roll Six in Blazing Plane Crash - One of the two men picked up from the wrecked R.A.F. Coastal Command Warwick in the Moray Firth* late on Tuesday night [13 Nov. 1945] died in hospital yesterday. Five other members of the crew are presumed to have lost their lives.
It is believed that the Warwick burst into flames in the mid-air before crashing into the firth about eight miles north-east of Covesea lighthouse.
The glare set up by the blazing plane was seen by coastguards, who first thought it was a signal from a ship in distress.
High praise has been given to the coastguards at Burghead and Lossiemouth for the accurate "fixes" they gave. These enabled the rescuers to reach the spot speedily and pick up two of the crew.
As soon as the alarm was given, three vessels set out to the rescue, the Buckle lifeboat, the Nairn motor fishing boat Larus and an R.A.F. high-speed launch from Burghead. First to reach the spot was the Larus, which had been fishing from Lossiemouth. The crew found the wreckage of the plane and picked up to survivors who were floating in their "Mae Wests." One of them suffering from extensive burns was attended at sea by an R.A.F. medical officer, and was rushed in the motor launch to Burghead. As mentioned, he died later. [John Adams?]
The other airman taken on board the seine-net boat was conveyed in Lossiemouth and then by ambulance to Kinloss. He expressed the view the three of his companions were dead and had gone down with the plane.
Both the airmen picked up must have been in the water for about two hours. The wrist watch of one them had stopped at 10:30.
Tragedy overtook the fishing boat Larus yesterday morning, when going to the fishing grounds after completing its errand of mercy. At sea it was discovered in the darkness that one of the men was missing. It is presumed he was washed overboard.
He was Mr. Harry Farrar, the thirty-five-year-old cook, and son-in-law of the skipper, Mr. Alexander Ian, Inverern, The Links, Nairn.
Mr. Farrar who resided with his wife at 48a Society Street, Mairn, was a native of Dundee. He had been going to sea for only three weeks. [Compiler's Note: as of 6/1/2020 no Find A Grave memorial found for Harry Farrar or his father in law Alexander Ian.]
*Moray Firth Copy & Paste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moray_Firth
**HIS FATHER: John Buchanan Adams, age 81, b. 1 Oct 1888, d. 1st Quarter, 1970, Durham eastern. Source: General Register Office; United Kingdom; Volume: 1a; Page: 1048.**
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This is a transcription of an unnamed newspaper article posted to an ancestry tree for another R.A.F. service man. The date being so close, and that the article states he died later - 20 Nov vs 16 Nov this may be the unnamed 2nd survivor. Others, according to family were:
(1) Flight Sergeant Douglas Frederick Hamblett
(2) Flight Sergeant Finlay Urquhart
(3) Flying Officer John Adams
-- -- --
NEWSPAPER: - Death Roll Six in Blazing Plane Crash - One of the two men picked up from the wrecked R.A.F. Coastal Command Warwick in the Moray Firth* late on Tuesday night [13 Nov. 1945] died in hospital yesterday. Five other members of the crew are presumed to have lost their lives.
It is believed that the Warwick burst into flames in the mid-air before crashing into the firth about eight miles north-east of Covesea lighthouse.
The glare set up by the blazing plane was seen by coastguards, who first thought it was a signal from a ship in distress.
High praise has been given to the coastguards at Burghead and Lossiemouth for the accurate "fixes" they gave. These enabled the rescuers to reach the spot speedily and pick up two of the crew.
As soon as the alarm was given, three vessels set out to the rescue, the Buckle lifeboat, the Nairn motor fishing boat Larus and an R.A.F. high-speed launch from Burghead. First to reach the spot was the Larus, which had been fishing from Lossiemouth. The crew found the wreckage of the plane and picked up to survivors who were floating in their "Mae Wests." One of them suffering from extensive burns was attended at sea by an R.A.F. medical officer, and was rushed in the motor launch to Burghead. As mentioned, he died later. [John Adams?]
The other airman taken on board the seine-net boat was conveyed in Lossiemouth and then by ambulance to Kinloss. He expressed the view the three of his companions were dead and had gone down with the plane.
Both the airmen picked up must have been in the water for about two hours. The wrist watch of one them had stopped at 10:30.
Tragedy overtook the fishing boat Larus yesterday morning, when going to the fishing grounds after completing its errand of mercy. At sea it was discovered in the darkness that one of the men was missing. It is presumed he was washed overboard.
He was Mr. Harry Farrar, the thirty-five-year-old cook, and son-in-law of the skipper, Mr. Alexander Ian, Inverern, The Links, Nairn.
Mr. Farrar who resided with his wife at 48a Society Street, Mairn, was a native of Dundee. He had been going to sea for only three weeks. [Compiler's Note: as of 6/1/2020 no Find A Grave memorial found for Harry Farrar or his father in law Alexander Ian.]
*Moray Firth Copy & Paste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moray_Firth
ADAMS,Flying Offr. John Edmund, 197688. R.A.F. (V.R.). 245 Sqdn. 20th November, 1945. Age 21. Son of John Buchanan Adams and Annie Bertha Adams of Newcastle-on-Tyne. Panel 266.
**HIS FATHER: John Buchanan Adams, age 81, b. 1 Oct 1888, d. 1st Quarter, 1970, Durham eastern. Source: General Register Office; United Kingdom; Volume: 1a; Page: 1048.**
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This is a transcription of an unnamed newspaper article posted to an ancestry tree for another R.A.F. service man. The date being so close, and that the article states he died later - 20 Nov vs 16 Nov this may be the unnamed 2nd survivor. Others, according to family were:
(1) Flight Sergeant Douglas Frederick Hamblett
(2) Flight Sergeant Finlay Urquhart
(3) Flying Officer John Adams
-- -- --
NEWSPAPER: - Death Roll Six in Blazing Plane Crash - One of the two men picked up from the wrecked R.A.F. Coastal Command Warwick in the Moray Firth* late on Tuesday night [13 Nov. 1945] died in hospital yesterday. Five other members of the crew are presumed to have lost their lives.
It is believed that the Warwick burst into flames in the mid-air before crashing into the firth about eight miles north-east of Covesea lighthouse.
The glare set up by the blazing plane was seen by coastguards, who first thought it was a signal from a ship in distress.
High praise has been given to the coastguards at Burghead and Lossiemouth for the accurate "fixes" they gave. These enabled the rescuers to reach the spot speedily and pick up two of the crew.
As soon as the alarm was given, three vessels set out to the rescue, the Buckle lifeboat, the Nairn motor fishing boat Larus and an R.A.F. high-speed launch from Burghead. First to reach the spot was the Larus, which had been fishing from Lossiemouth. The crew found the wreckage of the plane and picked up to survivors who were floating in their "Mae Wests." One of them suffering from extensive burns was attended at sea by an R.A.F. medical officer, and was rushed in the motor launch to Burghead. As mentioned, he died later. [John Adams?]
The other airman taken on board the seine-net boat was conveyed in Lossiemouth and then by ambulance to Kinloss. He expressed the view the three of his companions were dead and had gone down with the plane.
Both the airmen picked up must have been in the water for about two hours. The wrist watch of one them had stopped at 10:30.
Tragedy overtook the fishing boat Larus yesterday morning, when going to the fishing grounds after completing its errand of mercy. At sea it was discovered in the darkness that one of the men was missing. It is presumed he was washed overboard.
He was Mr. Harry Farrar, the thirty-five-year-old cook, and son-in-law of the skipper, Mr. Alexander Ian, Inverern, The Links, Nairn.
Mr. Farrar who resided with his wife at 48a Society Street, Mairn, was a native of Dundee. He had been going to sea for only three weeks. [Compiler's Note: as of 6/1/2020 no Find A Grave memorial found for Harry Farrar or his father in law Alexander Ian.]
*Moray Firth Copy & Paste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moray_Firth
**HIS FATHER: John Buchanan Adams, age 81, b. 1 Oct 1888, d. 1st Quarter, 1970, Durham eastern. Source: General Register Office; United Kingdom; Volume: 1a; Page: 1048.**
-- -- --
This is a transcription of an unnamed newspaper article posted to an ancestry tree for another R.A.F. service man. The date being so close, and that the article states he died later - 20 Nov vs 16 Nov this may be the unnamed 2nd survivor. Others, according to family were:
(1) Flight Sergeant Douglas Frederick Hamblett
(2) Flight Sergeant Finlay Urquhart
(3) Flying Officer John Adams
-- -- --
NEWSPAPER: - Death Roll Six in Blazing Plane Crash - One of the two men picked up from the wrecked R.A.F. Coastal Command Warwick in the Moray Firth* late on Tuesday night [13 Nov. 1945] died in hospital yesterday. Five other members of the crew are presumed to have lost their lives.
It is believed that the Warwick burst into flames in the mid-air before crashing into the firth about eight miles north-east of Covesea lighthouse.
The glare set up by the blazing plane was seen by coastguards, who first thought it was a signal from a ship in distress.
High praise has been given to the coastguards at Burghead and Lossiemouth for the accurate "fixes" they gave. These enabled the rescuers to reach the spot speedily and pick up two of the crew.
As soon as the alarm was given, three vessels set out to the rescue, the Buckle lifeboat, the Nairn motor fishing boat Larus and an R.A.F. high-speed launch from Burghead. First to reach the spot was the Larus, which had been fishing from Lossiemouth. The crew found the wreckage of the plane and picked up to survivors who were floating in their "Mae Wests." One of them suffering from extensive burns was attended at sea by an R.A.F. medical officer, and was rushed in the motor launch to Burghead. As mentioned, he died later. [John Adams?]
The other airman taken on board the seine-net boat was conveyed in Lossiemouth and then by ambulance to Kinloss. He expressed the view the three of his companions were dead and had gone down with the plane.
Both the airmen picked up must have been in the water for about two hours. The wrist watch of one them had stopped at 10:30.
Tragedy overtook the fishing boat Larus yesterday morning, when going to the fishing grounds after completing its errand of mercy. At sea it was discovered in the darkness that one of the men was missing. It is presumed he was washed overboard.
He was Mr. Harry Farrar, the thirty-five-year-old cook, and son-in-law of the skipper, Mr. Alexander Ian, Inverern, The Links, Nairn.
Mr. Farrar who resided with his wife at 48a Society Street, Mairn, was a native of Dundee. He had been going to sea for only three weeks. [Compiler's Note: as of 6/1/2020 no Find A Grave memorial found for Harry Farrar or his father in law Alexander Ian.]
*Moray Firth Copy & Paste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moray_Firth
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