Sgt. Albert Augustine Haydon

Albert Haydon was the son of Edward Francis and Cecilia Julia Haydon, of Palmerston North, New Zealand. Killed on Active Service. Age: 26.

Bristol Beaufort Mk.I N1180 of No.1 TTU, crashed on Tor Mhor, Mull of Kintyre, on the 2nd September 1942 while on a training flight from Turnberry: "While normally stationed at RAF Abbotsinch (now Glasgow Airport), the crew had been detatched to operate from RAF Turnberry on the Ayrshire coast. They had been briefed for a night navigation training flight, they had been given a weather forecast for a general deterioration in conditions along their planned route. However during the flight the change in the weather occurred more rapidly than forecast with a strong westerly wind developing. The aircraft had drifted a short way from the crew's intended track when it struck Tor Mhor, 1/2 a mile SE of the Mull of Kintyre lighthouse, where it broke up and caught fire." Source: Alan Clark via Peak District Air Accident Research https://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/crash_sites/scotland/brist...

Sources

1. Cenotaph: https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/...
2. Clark, Alan via Peak District Air Accident Research https://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/crash_sites/scotland/br

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