[DaveBrigg]

Hi
my son is doing a school project about WWII. He interviewed a Home Guard veteran from South Kelsey, Lincs, who told him about a couple of crashes nearby. It would be great if anyone could give more details, or at least confirm the stories.
1. On 30th October 1942 an Airspeed Oxford crashed into the rectory of South Kelsey, killing the three crew. The vicar and his wife survived. The crew may have been Welsh. They could have been flying from Kirton Lindsey, and were heading north when the plane went down. The crew are not buried in the village. Can anyone tell us their names?
2. The veteran recalled a British aircraft crashing quite early in the war between North Kelsey and the River Ancholme, again near to Kirton Lindsey and Caistor airfields. He says it happened at night, and a local farmer heard the men calling out, but was too scared to approach because he thought they were German. By the morning the crew had died of their injuries, and there was apparently 'quite a to-do' about them being left. He thinks that the aircraft was a Bristol, but I can't find any crash matching this description on the online records. There was a Blenheim lost a few miles further away, but he was quite specific about this location.
3 Our village cemetery has the grave of Aircraftsman Cyril Barrick (936124) who died on 28th May 1940. Our Home Guard friend knew him as Squibs. Does anyone know where or how he died.
Sorry for starting with so many questions. If anyone wants more detail about the life of a Home Guard corporal in Lincolnshire I'll happily send a write-up