LEST WE FORGET
Mr John Evan PRICE
An Australian civilian working for the Royal Air Force Ferry Command
Born: Date, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAF: Date not applicable
Unit: RAF Ferry Command
Died: Aircraft Accident (Liberator LB-30A aircraft AM261), Scotland, 10 August 1941, Aged 30 Years
Buried: Kilbride Old Churchyard, Isle of Arran, Buteshire
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Sidney Evan Price and of Eveline Mary Price (nee Batten), of Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Commemorative Roll, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 10 August 1941 Liberator AM261 took-off from Heathfield (Ayr) to fly to Gander, Canada, returning ferry crews to bring additional new aircraft across the Atlantic. Shortly after take-off the aircraft entered cloud and flew into Mullach Buidhe near the head of Coire Lan. The flight crews on-board were from Royal Air Force Ferry Command (RAFFC), Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) and British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). All 22 of the crew and passengers perished in the crash.
The crew members of AM261 were:
Francis Delaforce Bradbrooke (Captain) ATA (Co-pilot) Canadian
Ernest Robert Bristow White (Captain) (BOAC Pilot) British
The returning ferry crew members travelling as passengers were:
James Josiah Anderson (Pilot) RAFFC Canadian
Ralph Bruce Brammer (Radio Officer) RAFFC Canadian
John Beatty Drake (Radio Officer) RAFFC Canadian
Daniel Joseph Duggan (Pilot) RAFFC United States
Henry Samuel Green (Radio Officer) BOAC British
George Thomas Harris (Pilot) RAFFC United States
Hoyt Ralph Judy (Pilot) RAFFC US Citizen
Wilfrid Groves Kennedy (Radio Officer) RAFFC Canadian
Watt Miller King (Pilot) RAFFC United States
George Laing (Radio Officer) RAFFC Canadian
William Kenneth Marks (Radio Officer) RAFFC Canadian
Hugh Cameron McIntosh (Radio Officer) RAFFC Canadian
Albert Alexander Oliver (Radio Officer) ATA British
George Herbert Powell (Radio Officer) ATA British
John Evan Price (Pilot) RAFFC Australian
Herbert David Rees (Radio Officer) ATA British
Ernest George Reeves (Flight Engineer) RAFFC United States
John James Rouleston (First Officer) RAFFC United States
Harold Clifford Wesley Smith (Pilot) RAFFC Canadian
Jack Wixen (Pilot) RAFFC United States
References:
Christie, C.A. (Carl Andrew) Ocean Bridge: The History of RAF Ferry Command, University of Toronto Press Toronto Canada, 1995
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
On Line Sources