KEEP calm and carry on; that’s how Britons coped during the Second World War. It must also explain why there is no public memorial in Tockwith to those who died on the fateful night of October 9, 1945.
Stirling bomber LJ622 was returning to Marston Moor after a training flight, but the aircraft stalled during a turn, before crashing in Marston Road, demolishing buildings and shops. Postmaster Arthur Carlill and all six crew members were killed.
Until now, the only record has been a piece of typed card in the parish church. But in October, on the 70th anniversary of the crash, a monument will be unveiled.
Any plane crash causes devastation, but this one is especially poignant. It happened a month after the Second World War ended as Tockwith and the rest of the country were coming to terms with the loss of too many lives during the conflict. It is good that this tragedy will be remembered in perpetuity.
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