Crisp, Bernard Douglas
Personal Information
Rank | AC2 |
Forename(s) | Bernard Douglas |
Surname | Crisp |
Gender | M |
Age | 19 |
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Date of Death | 12-12-1941 |
Next of Kin | Son of James Douglas and Bertha Hilda Crisp, of Beckenham, Kent. |
Aircraft Information
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Memorial Information
Burial/Memorial Country | United Kingdom |
Burial/Memorial Place | Brookwood Military Cemetery |
Grave Reference | 24. A. 13. |
Epitaph | WITH A TENDER SMILE AND A WAVE OF THE HAND HE WANDERED INTO AN UNKNOWN LAND poem by James Whitcomb Riley |
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase | 1 |
Panel Number | 24 |
Enlistment Information
Service Number | 1453008 |
Service | Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve |
Group | 5 |
Squadron | 50 |
Trade | Ground |
Country of Origin | United Kingdom |
Other Memorials
Location | Birchwood Way, Birchwood Estate, Lincoln, Lincolnshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Brick Memorial & Inscribed Marble Obolisk |
Memorial Text | To the memory of the Air Crews and Ground Staff who gave their lives whilst serving with No 50 Squadron and No 61 Squadron, 5 group, Bomber Command The Royal Air Force 2nd World War 1939 to 1945. No 50 Squadron "From defence to attack" Operated from Waddi |
Location | Memorial Gardens, Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Brick Memorial with Inscribed Marble Stone |
Memorial Text | Royal Air Force Skellingthorpe. My brief sweet life is over, My eyes no longer see, No Christmas Trees, No summer walks, No pretty girls for me, I've got the chop - I've had it, My nightly ops are done, Yet in another 100 years I'll still be twenty one. R |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Last Operation Information
Start Date | 30-11--0001 |
End Date | 30-11--0001 |
Takeoff Station | Skellingthorpe |
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Reason for Loss | Lincolnshire Echo of December 15th 1941: "Airman Killed By Car In Black-Out. An admission that he crossed the Newark Road during the hours of darkness without "looking particularly" to see of there was any traffic about, was made by a witness at an inquest held at Swinderby today on A.C.2 Bernard Douglas Crisp, R.A.F., whose home is at Beckenham, Kent. He was knocked down by a car while walking along Newark Road towards Lincoln. A.C.2 Eric Major Jowett said he and Crisp had crossed the road just prior to the accident. He did not see any traffic about although he did not look particularly. When Crisp was hit he was walking behind Jowett close to the grass verge. The driver of the car, Richard George Tyson, of Louth, said he did not see the airmen until after the accident. He was travelling at 15 m.p.h with his lights on, and he stopped in four yards after hitting Crisp. Medical evidence was given that a broken neck was the cause of death. Returning a verdict of "Death by misadventure," the Coroner (Mr. Reynolds Spencer) expressed the opinion that the driver should have seen the men as they were walking along, but there was no criminal liability on his part. At the same time the airmen should have looked carefully to see of there if any traffic was about when they crossed the road. |