Red Arrows commemorate Canadian WW2 airmen

In logs, it said the RAF pilot had not identified himself correctly to the RCAF plane and was unaware of allied Wellington bombers being in the Dorset area.

Home Guard officer Sidney Symes, who was the first man on the scene of the crash, looked after F/O McKie until he died.

The six men were buried at Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey.

They had been taking part in an operation over Nantes, France, and had originally taken off from Ossington in Nottinghamshire.

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