You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
Remembering where the bomber crashed<br />
Under this title in 2012, the <strong>Record</strong> published an appeal by local historian Ann<br />
Spokes Symonds that the <strong>College</strong> should commemorate a tragedy in its pre-history<br />
on 4 May 1941, when a Whitley V aircraft on a training flight from RAF Abingdon<br />
crashed on the site of what is now the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, killing all<br />
three crew members and a local resident. The <strong>College</strong> responded warmly, and<br />
on the anniversary of the crash, on Sunday 4 May <strong>2014</strong>, the President unveiled<br />
a plaque on the wall of the Auditorium before an audience of some fifty persons,<br />
who included the nephew and niece of the aircraft’s wireless operator, and three<br />
surviving eye-witnesses.<br />
(Seated, from the front) Ann Spokes Symonds, Mrs Robb, Colin Robb (nephew of Sgt Mochan), Karen<br />
Sherrington (niece of Sgt Mochan), Professor Sir Peter Morris, Lady Morris<br />
Before the plaque was unveiled, the President briefly welcomed everyone who had<br />
come, and invited the Bursar, Edward Jarron, to describe what had happened.<br />
36
Change language