Flying Officer Francis Titcomb

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Reference WMO/256196

Address:

c750m south-west of Dowson Garth, Castle Hill,

Egton Bridge

YO22 5AU

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Wheel cross
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: A cross, reputedly based on the design of a wayside cross near Vittel in the Vosges (France). A blind wheel-head cross, bearing the figure of Christ crucified, rises from the stepped capital of a tapering column, square on plan. The column base is a cube which has raised panels carved on three sides with, to the front, a panel with the only inscription, reading KF/ 1929. The cross stands on a stone base, with a slightly projecting cornice to the front only. The base is mounted on a square platform. Probationary Flying Officer Francis Holt Yates Titcomb crashed his Farman longhorn aircraft (N5055) close to this site on 15 April 1917 on what was his first solo cross country flight. Local people found the pilot in the wreckage and carried him to a nearby farm where he died. In 1929 Mr John Kenneth Foster JP arranged for the cross to be erected on the site.
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KF 1929

Francis Holt Yates Titcomb RN (b1898) was a Probationary Flight Officer in the Royal Naval Air Service.

Grade II (England)

1453942

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