Charles Richard (Dick) Floyd

20 March 1944 Wellington LN181 82 OTU Take off RAF Ossington on night training, lost power on the port engine and on entering cloud lost control and crashed at Yardley Gobion at 22.50 killing all the crew. The aircraft came down between The Pepper Pot Inn and an area known as The Leys, exploding scattering wreckage and remains over the orchard. In the subsequent technical investigation a piece of piston ring, and piston top were found in the engines sump, evidence of internal failure in flight, also it was believed fuel had been dumped in preparedness for a forced landing. The RCAF crew was all laid to rest at Brookwood Military Cemetery.

Also lost;

F/O Ronald Calnan RCAF
P/O Ralph MacGillivray RCAF
F/O Daniel Jacobs RCAF
F/O Melville Fullerton RCAF
Sgt Lorne Johnston RCAF
P/O Harry Millen RCAF
F/O William Mohring RCAF

Later that year Peter Munday and his grandfather while erecting fence posts came across some more crew remains, these where buried in-situ and marked with a cross.