| Flying Officer
Stanley Hoy was serving as Bomb Aimer on board Lancaster Mk.I
R5676 when it took
off from Swinderby on a training exercise on February 12,
1943. The aircraft broke up in flight after its starboard wing
failed, it crashed at approximately 1005hrs at Oldfields Farm,
Sturton by Stow some 8 miles NW of Lincoln. None of the crew
survived. The
crew consisted of:
|
Name |
Service |
Trade |
Hometown |
Age |
|
F/O Sydney Jones |
RAFVR |
Pilot |
Epping, Essex |
- |
|
Sgt William Raeside |
RAFVR |
Flight Engineer |
Kilmarnock, Scotland |
26 |
|
F/O Felix Krish |
RAFVR |
Navigator |
Fulham, London |
26 |
|
F/O Stanley Hoy |
RAFVR |
Bomb Aimer |
Beverley,E.Yorkshire |
31 |
|
Sgt John Westwood |
RAFVR |
W/Op/AG |
Wychbold,Worcestershire |
22 |
|
F/Sgt Gerald Kennedy |
RCAF |
M/U Gunner |
Elm Creek, Manitoba |
20 |
|
Sgt Thomas Jackson |
RAFVR |
Rear Gunner |
Coundon,Durham |
23 |
|
LAC Elijah Redfern |
RAFVR |
Passenger |
Derby |
23 |
Tragically the
Hoy family lost another son just one month earlier, also in a
training accident, when their son Cyril was killed piloting a
Wellington with 11 Operational Training Unit.
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Cyril and
Stanley Hoy |
Stanley Hoy is buried with his younger brother,
Cyril, in a joint grave at Hull Eastern cemetery.
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Cyril and
Stanley Hoy's grave. |
Flying Officer Stanley Hoy RAFVR was the son of
Herbert and Agnes Dorothea Hoy of Hull and husband of Violet of
Beverley.
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