Brooklyn Avenue: Stories by the number: 1 Brooklyn Apts #4

By Joanne Doucette (liatris52@sympatico.ca)

A Ghostly Voice

From his military records:
Name:  Reginald Chester Pelham Medhurst
Rank:                                    Flying Officer
Death Age:                           27
Birth Year:                             abt 1917
Death Date:                          13 Apr 1944
Military Base:                        Lissett, Yorkshire, England
Service Number:                    J23727
Unit:                                     1663 Heavy Conversion Unit, attached from 158 Squadron
Command:                            Bomber Command
Ship [Airplane]:                     Handley Page Halifax V
Occupation:                          Air Bomber
Casualty:                              Killed whilst flying
Residence Place:                  Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Burial Place:                         Harrogate (Stonefall) Cemetery, Yorkshire, England
Notes:                                  stalled and crashed at Healaugh moments after taking off from Rufforth on a night training flight, one survivor

For more about this airforce base see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Rufforth