Picture of Original Aircraft

Crash Site Location:  on Fan Hir at about 620 msl SN 827 202

Parent Unit: R.A.F. Pembray, Carmarthenshire, Wales

Mission: General Training

Pilot

Pilot Officer John Raymond Baldock

Family History                Birth Record Index 1932

Death Record Index 1953    

William John Baldock Marriage Record Index 1930

Phyllis York Marriage Record Index 1930

John Baldock had been leading a pair of Vampire aircraft and his No 2, on breaking cloud, had pulled up sharply to avoid the hilly terrain and did not see what happened to his leader, but the wreckage when found was consistent with the Pilot having continued to let down through the cloud, and into the mountainside