Flying Officer Alan Leonard Hunt

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Reference WMO/264541

Address:

St. Leonard's Church

Church End

Sandridge

AL4 9DL

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Stained glass window
Materials:
  • Glass Stained Glass
Lettering: Other
Conflicts:
  • Mau Mau Revolt, Kenya (1952-1960)
About the memorial: F/O Hunt, killed in a flying accident on 19/02/55. 49 Sqn Lincoln SX984 was returning to its base at Eastleigh Kenya, following an Op against the Mau Mau uprising. As the aircraft approached the airfield, it commenced a series of unauthorised low passes over a local Police Station. Tragically on its last pass, it struck a fence, entered a steep vertical climb, before it inevitably stalled and crashed at Githunguri. All the crew and four locals on the ground were killed in the tragedy. See Link. This is one of a very few number of memorials to Lincolns (and crews) lost in Bomber Command service.
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To the Glory of God and in / loving memory of Alan Leonard HUNT / Flying Officer, 49 Bomber / Squadron, Royal Air Force / killed on operational duty in / Kenya, 19th February 1955 Aged 26

Alan Leonard Hunt

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