Chester (Blacon) was a new cemetery in 1940 when the authorities set aside two plots for service burials. The larger plot in Section 'A' was used as a Royal Air Force regional cemetery by a number of R.A.F. stations in Cheshire and the adjoining counties. Only airmen are buried in it. The smaller plot in Section 'H' was used for Commonwealth burials and for the burial of servicemen from the numerous Polish hospitals and camps in the area. Almost all of the war graves are in one or other of these plots.
The cemetery contains 461 Commonwealth burials of the second world war. (Commonwealth War Graves Commission).
Sgt Robert John Bell died from injuries received in the Freckleton Air Disaster on 24/8/1944. A United States Army Airforce Consolidated B-24H-20-CF Liberator, 42-50291, 'Classy Chassis 11' crashed into a school and snack bar at Freckleton, Lancashire. At 10.47 hrs while on approach to Warton Aerodrome.
20 adults, 38 children and the three-man crew are killed. Sgt. Robert Bell. Navigator. RAF. Age 20. Buried in Blacon Cemetery.
2. A 428 Squadron Lancaster bomber crashed on a routine training flight, 30th April 1945.
A 428 Squadron Lancaster bomber crashed during a routine training flight over the English countryside. All seven crew members died. One of the crew was a 16-year-old tail-gunner Wright from Winnipeg who is believed to be the youngest aircrew member killed in the Second World War. April 30, 1945.
4. Five airmen buried close together after their Wellington bomber crashed 20th November 1944.
In Blacon Cemetery there are five special memorials, all marked 'buried near this spot', for five of the six crew members of Wellington LN 428. 140OTU, that crashed on 20/11/1944 near Lilleshall, between Oakengates and Newport in Shropshire....records show that the medical officer had trouble identifying the casualties. .
The aircraft had in fact collided with Seafire LR872 which caused the crash.
The aircraft that crashed in Hartford village on 15/4/1944 was a twin engine Albemarle bomber. It had flown over twice, at very low altitude, skimming the roof tops, in fact, and on the third pass struck the chimney of a house. A Mrs Hodson lived there. One of the crew members was Gerry Crowe who lived a few doors away from Mrs Hodson; he was killed in the crash.
Sergeant E .N. Death. R.A.A.F. Died 10th September 1943. Age 19.
when Wellington BK152 crashed into a house.
F/O. William Broughton Gingell. DFC. DFM. Killed in a flying accident 1st August 1946. (possibly) in the Shropshire area. Age 27.
Numerous fatal accidents were recorded throughout the country of aircraft crashing into mountain slopes.
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