4 Weeks ago...
G is the expert on WW2 crash sites in the Lammermuirs having spent several years researching and visiting many so is going to hand the story over to G to tell...
"On the 29th of August 1941, 23 year old Australian Flight Sgt Anthony D G La Gruta set off from East Fortune airfield to conduct a series of homing exercises. It is believed he lost control of the Boulton Paul Defiant aircraft due to his inexperience and nose dived into the hillside. The MOD were unable to recover his body as the bulk of the aircraft was buried 16 feet underground, so his body still lies to this day in the ground.
On a further sad note, this is my 5th visit to this site and I was somewhat dismayed to see that a large amount of wreckage has been removed from the site. This is absolutely dreadful considering this is actually a war grave."
As G says to take from a War Grave is bad, sadly this is a increasing thing happening to crash sites..
A lonely place for such a young person to end their life...
We continued cycling into the hills on tracks through secluded cleughs...
Wee film, Song is `Captain Coull`s Parrot` by Peatbog Fairies
More soon...
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