Between Wars Memorial to a Lieutenant Pilot from HMS Exeter.

I took this today within All Saints Church, High Wycombe. This is alongside the plaque to the Captain of HMS Rawalpindi.

 

Fatal accidents to British aircraft overseas 1930 - 2 Sep 1939

24.3.33 Osprey S1688, 407 Flt, HMS Exeter

Flying accident, Arosa Bay, Spain

Fg Off Thomas Godfrey Carey (28) killed (Lt, RN)

Lt Barclay Selwyn Francis Alton (21) killed (RM)

 

UK, British Army and Navy Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1730-1960
Name: F. L. Alton
Event: Death
Death Date: 24 Mar 1933
Death Place: On Denon Port
Ship: Exeter

Looking at the original it looks like Devonport to me - long way from Spain??



Double checking - HMS Exeter, British heavy cruiser, WW2
1933
January to March Squadron deployment included Spring Exercise programme with visits to Spanish ports.


TD

 

Deacs....a very informative database showing many of the overseas RAF bases who were not given up until many years after the end of WW2 on British withdrawal from these territories.