Crockett, William Vernon (Warrant Officer 2nd Class)

Took off for Air Sea Rescue Search from RAF Thonaby at 16:40, in company with two other Warwicks of the squadron, for a search of the North Sea near the Dutch coast.

On return the aircraft flew into a hill in bad visibility at High Bridge Stones, Sleights Moor, 4 miles south west of Whitby, Yorkshire

Killed includes Crockett: Flying Officer Willis Wylie Coons RCAF J/17250 KIA Stonefall Cemetery, Harrowgate, Yorkshire Sec. C. Row D. Grave 16. Squadron Leader Edgar Andrew Good RCAF C/18640 KIA St. Martin Churchyard, Houghton. Warrant Officer Class 2 Douglas Allan Payton RCAF R/105266 KIA Stonefall Cemetery Sec. C. Row D. Grave 18. WO Henry George Richardson RAF KIA Tunbridge Wells Cemetery Cons. Sec. 19C. Grave. Flying Officer Dennis Maurice Stewart RAF KIA Stonefall Cemetery Sec. C. Row D. Grave 19.