The Avro Anson

Crash Site Location: South of Fan Brycheiniog at about 770 m

Parent Unit: Southampton Training Aviation Company - The Southampton Training Company was set up by Avro to train aircrew and had bases in Ansty and Hamble

Mission: Triangular Navigation and Observers instruction course.
The first leg was from Ansty to Hamble near Southampton, then from Hamble the Anson stopped at Cardiff before continuing on its final leg back to Coventry
 

Pilot

Flight Officer Ernest Ronald H Coombes

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Air crew

Air Crewman Alban D Mabbett

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Civilian passenger

Mr John McDonald

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Civilian passenger

Mr L A Prescott

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In the churchyard at Callwen near the Gwyn Arms there is a small monument with the following inscription: