The crew of a Manchester aircraft were engaged in a transit flight with a crew of 6 and a servicing party of 4 returning to base after attending to a Manchester that had landed at Haverigg Airfield, Cumberland, when they crashed while in the landing circuit near Lincoln at Waddington near South Hykeham, England.
Killed includes Clements: AC1 Reginald Boyd RAF KIA Crosby Cemetery Scunthorpe Sec. C.F. Grave 369. LAC Leslie Wilfred Carter RAF KIA St. Swithin's Cemetery Lincoln Sec. R. Grave 329. Sergeant John Russell Clements RCAF J/5313 KIA St. Michael Churchyard Waddington. Flying Officer Ernest Edwin Gordon Crump RAF pilot KIA St. Michael Churchyard. AC2 James William Grace RAF KIA St. Michael Churchyard. AC2 Jack Lister RAF KIA Newport Cemetery Lincoln Sec. G. Grave 313 South. Sergeant Norman Alan Mathison RAF KIA Northallerton Cemetery Grave 4393. LAC John Frederick Riding RAF KIA Stretford Cemetery Sec. C.L. Grave 127. Pilot Officer John Patrick Anthony Sawyer RCAF J/5135 pilot KIA Beaconsfield Cemetery, Buckinghamshire Grave 1846. LAC Harold Francis Winter RAF KIA Dewsbury Cemetery Cons. Sec. P. Grave 428.