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Can anyone provide any eye-witness accounts or photographs for this crash?
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RE: Gloster Meteor crash on the Holm Hill, 18 August 1953
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Dec 19 2008, 11:55 AM EST
From 'Last Take-Off'
18 Aug 53, WA 758, Meteor F8, 19 Sqn, South of Newcastleton, 1 casualty, The aircraft struck the ground whilst on a cross country flight and about 20 miles off track, Flying Officer Gaston Michael John Yelding age 20
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Surname YELDING
Forenames/Initials Gaston Michael John
Rank Fg Off
Service Royal Air Force
Service Number 4061875
Station RAF Church Fenton
Place of Birth/Home Town Budapest, Hungary
Date of Birth 18 September 1932
Age 20
Date of Death 18 August 1953
Cemetery Name Kirkbywharfe Churchyard
Cemetery Address Tadcaster
Yorkshire
Grave Section 2
Grave Number A.1
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