Summary: It was in the early predawn that Pilot Officer Richard Pryce Hughes crashed his aircraft on the heathland a little less than 500 yards from where I live. That was 78 years ago and I was yet to be born and where my house is was still a pine covered heathland. A marker has been erected to show the location of the crash and as we approach the 11th of the 11th my wife or I place a cross on the small monument in remembrance, lest we forget.<br> <br> The heathland upon which Pilot Officer Richard Pryce Hughes crashed.<br> <br> <br> <br> RCAF recruitment poster.<br> <br> <br> <br> The Handley Page Halifax.<br> <br> <br> <br> A painting depicting a 1,000 bomber raid.<br> <br> <br> <br> The 10 Squadron winged arrow - approved by King George VI in September 1937.<br> <br> <br> <br> The Bomber Command memorial depicting a typical crew.<br> <br> <br> <br> A Halifax during a raid.<br> <br> <br> <br> The fate of a heavy bomber hit by flak.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> The Bristol Blenheim.<br> <br> <br> <br> The De Havilland Mosquito.<br> <br> <br> <br> The graves of the two brave Hughes cousins.<br> <br> <br> <br> The Canadian memorial to their bomber crews at Nanton.<br> <br> <br> <br> The marker placed in memory of Pilot Officer Richard Pryce Hughes.<br> <br> <br> <br> Each year as we approach the 11th of the 11th my wife or I place a cross on the marker in remembrance... lest we forget.<br> <br> <br> <br> Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to the Royal Air Force, the Ministry of Defence, Google Maps, the Royal Canadian Air Force.
