Reg Payne's crew

Reg Payne's crew

Seven airmen in a line wearing flying gear and Mae Wests. One man has no life jacket. A caption supplied with the photograph reads 'his [Reg Payne's] crew when the pilot was Sir Michael Beetham - this was the crew in the plane that crashed near East Kirkby'.
'From the left
Fred Ball - Rear Gunner - was killed in the accident
Les Bartlett - Bomb Aimer
Michael Beetham - Pilot
Frank Swinyard - Navigator
Reg Payne - WOP/Air Gunner
Donald Moor - Flight Engineer - was killed in the accident
Jock Higgins - Mid Upper Gunner'.

Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.

One b/w photocopied sheet

This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.

PPayneR1505