I found a snippet ....

**liverpool annie** · 08-30-2008, 06:25 AM

but I can't decipher it

I wonder if anybody can help ... I searched RAF Commands but it said no records but I'm not even sure if this is really the man I'm looking for .... can you tell me where else I can look please ?

W/Op Air (pupil) F/Sgt Gwilym James Whitcombe 1229466 RAFVR UK 24 + Son
2 CONC of James and Laura Whitcombe, of Culmstock, Devon. Row J. 21B, grave 92,
2 CONC Culmstock Cemetery

(Source: Commonwealth War Graves Commission database)
2 CONT
2 CONT The aircraft appears to have hit a hill at Moccas Park, near Dorstone, c.
2 CONC 7 miles east of Hay on Wye, Herefordshire: OS Landranger series map No.
2 CONC 148, grid ref. 3342.
2 CONT
2 CONT Source: Ordnance Survey http://ww
2 CONC w.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/getamap/
2 CONT
2 CONT According to the RAF Commands website, a Court of Enquiry investigated
2 CONC the loss of this aircraft.

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/rh%20bentl.../bentleyde.ged

**Kyt** · 08-30-2008, 06:48 AM

Hi Annie,

this is the proper formatted version of that page

Bentley Descendants - aqw13.htm

The two rafcommands pages mentioned are:

<CENTER><img src= "http://www.rafcommands.com/rafcommandsbanner.gif"><BR> - "F/L Crowther crash in Wales 29.4.45"

<CENTER><img src= "http://www.rafcommands.com/rafcommandsbanner.gif"><BR> - "105 O.T.U. R.A.F. accidental death 29 April 1945"

And Smith's (RAAF) file

http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imag...79194&I=1&SE=1

**spidge** · 08-30-2008, 09:02 AM

Hi Annie,

I have spoken to Greg and supplied him with info for the RAAF lads who were from Mackay.

Smith was buried at Botley.

Oxford Botley 426848 Smith_GGM.JPG

I will have to contact him and see what the result of the inquiry was on the crash.

**H Davies** · 06-14-2010, 09:27 AM

Hi,
Just seen this message don't know much re the crash, but I found the wreckage of the Wellington Bomber 50 years to the day that it crashed. It has not been touched since the day it was buried in the ground.
Regards,
H