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Re: Meteor IV VT185. No Photo.. But final sortie

Posted by Paul McMillan on Mon Apr 21, 2003 07:45:08 AM

In reply top Meteor IV VT185 posted by andy saunders on Mon Apr 21, 2003 06:31:18 AM

was a special duty flight and the aircrfat was returning to base

Monday 24th April 1950

Station Flight, RAF West Malling (Kent - 11 Group)

Gloster Meteor F.4 VT 185 - took off from Martlesham Hearh, Suffolk at 10.30. Snowstorms, turbulent and icy weather were encountered over kent, the pilot after flying over West malling at 200 feet diverting to Manston. Moments later at 10.45 VT185 dived into the ground at Moat Farm, Five Oak Green, 4 miles east of Tonbridge and disintegrated. It was thought extreme ice accretion had caused loss of control.

Full Name Rank, Awards and Age:

Group Captain Henry Neville Gynes Ramsbottom-Isherwood DFC AFC, Order of Lenin (USSR) aged 44.

Serial 29116

Flying Hours: 3339 hrs (13 solo on Meteor)

He was officer comanding West Malling, and died 3 months short of 20 years service.

Source: For Your Tomorrow Vol 2 Fates 1943-1998,
(Records of New Zealanders who have died while serving with RNZAF and Allied Air Services since 1915
by Errol W. Martyn
ISBN 0-473-06311-5

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