| Sergeant Cyril
Hoy RAFVR was piloting Wellington Mk.IC X9953 when it took
off from Westcott for a night navigation exercise on January 9/10,
1943. The aircraft iced up, the aircraft was ordered
abandoned and crashed at 0001 hours near Burbage on the South side
of Hinckley, Leicestershire. Four crew members baled out and were
injured but sadly Sergeant Hoy was killed. The
crew consisted of:
|
Name |
Service |
Hometown |
Age |
|
Sgt Cyril Hoy |
RAFVR |
Hull |
25 |
|
Sgt Victor Sharp |
RNZAF |
- |
35 |
|
P/O E.J. Mansell |
RAFVR |
- |
- |
|
Sgt Joseph Hoey |
RNZAF |
Wishaw,Lanarkshire |
32 |
|
Sgt Ivan Tvrdeich |
RNZAF |
Auckland, New Zealand |
32 |
Tragically the
Hoy family would lose another son later in the year, also in a
training accident when their son Stanley was killed with 1660 Heavy
Conversion Unit.
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|
Cyril and
Stanley Hoy |
Sergeant Hoy is buried with his older brother,
Stanley in a joint grave at Hull Eastern cemetery. Sadly, all but
one member of the crew were killed on operations after being
assigned to other crews.
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|
Cyril and
Stanley Hoy's grave. |
Sgt Joseph Hoy would later be killed on the
Mannheim raid in 75 Squadron on 23/24th September 1943.
Sergeant Sharp was later to be killed
on an op to Hanover in 90 Squadron on 28th September
1943. Sergeant Ivan Tvrdeich
RNZAF, who was became a member of the Caterpillar Club for the above
incident, was to be killed in 15 squadron on an op to Berlin on
24/25th March 1944.
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