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GILLESPIE WH
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GILLESPIE, William

Aircraft Information
Aircraft Avro Lancaster BI
Serial Number TW647
Markings
Memorial information
Burial/Memorial Country United Kingdom
Burial/Memorial Place Pinner Cemetery, Middlesex
Grave Reference .
Epitaph
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase Post-War
Panel Number POST (not yet erected on site)
Enlistment information
Service Number 166966
Service Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Group
Squadron 115
Trade
Country of origin if different United Kingdom
Last Operation information
Start Date 11-11-1947
End Date 11-11-1947
Takeoff Station Witchford
Day/Night raid Day
Operation
Reason for Loss Flying in formation with a group of Lancasters on an exercise, suffered Mid Air Collision with a Hornet of 19 Sqn. Crashed at Buckenham Tofts, Stanford, Norfolk. Pilot survived