Hucknall's WW2 civilian casualties.

 Continuing with the theme of RAF Hucknall, activity from the base resulted in tragedy in September 1940. Hucknall thankfully only suffered one incident involving civilian casualties during WW2. On the 23rd September 1940, Part of the Polish Air Force 18 OTU, flight training from RAF Hucknall, L.A.C. Edmund Rozmiarek crashed into a house at Laughton Crescent on the Ruffs Estate. LAC Rozmiarek flying a Fairey Battle, on a training exercise from Hucknall had already completed three circuits, but on his fourth, the aircraft stalled and fell crashing into the occupied house, sadly killing all five members of the Evans family, the couple and their three young children along with LAC Rozmiarek who was 25 years old.

It is reminiscent of the only Watnall civilian casualties during WW2, a few days earlier when a German bomb landed on a house on Alandene Avenue on the night 30th August .




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