A collection of photos about the memorial to two Second World War Coastal Command aircrews who lost their lives when their Halifax aircraft collided over Tiree airfield on 16 August 1944. The memorial is situated outside the entrace to Tiree Airport. It was unveiled on the 70th anniversary of the collision, 2014, by Ken Organ, the son of the pilot of one of the aircraft, Flying Officer Kenneth William Organ RAFVR.
The memorial reads as follows:
In memory of two Second World War Coastal Command aircrews who tragically lost their lives when their Handley Page Halifax aircraft collided over this airfield on Wednesday 16th August 1944
Flying Officer Kenneth William Organ • Captain • Age 24 – RAFVR Pilot Officer Barry Waltham Smith • 2nd Pilot • Age 23 – RAFVR Flying Officer Kenneth Oates • Navigator • Age 23 • RAFVR Flying Officer John Alexander Peterson • Wireless Operator/Air Gunner • Age 26 • RAAF Warrant Offcer William Arthur Graham • Wireless Operator/Air Gunner • Age 21 • RAAF Flight Sergeant Ronald Victor Cresswell • Wireless Operator/Air Gunner • Age 23 • RAFVR Sergeant Arthur Marshall • Flight Engineer • Age 22 • RAFVR Sergeant Peter Geoffrey Smith • Meteorological Observer • Age 20 – RAEVR
Flying Officer Neil Douglas Thomson Turner • Captain • Age 23 • RAFVR Flying Officer Leonard Revilliod – 2nd Pilot • Age 21 – RAFVR Flying Officer Thomas Stephens • Navigator • Age 32 – RAAF Pilot Officer Frank Bradley • Wireless Operator/Air Gunner • Age 32 • RCAF Pilot Officer Mortimer Regenstreif • Wireless Operator/Air Gunner • Age 22 – RCAF Warrant Officer Philip Heslop Milne • Wireless Operator Air Gunner • Age 24 • RAFVR Sergeant Kenneth Williams • Flight Engineer • Age 22 • RAFVR Sergeant Roy Stevenson • Meteorological Observer • Age 20 • RAFVR
This memorial was unveiled by Kenneth Organ on 16th August 2014
The memorial at Tiree Airport
Ken Organ lays a wreath at 1.25pm on 16 August 2024, marking the 80th anniversary of the collision. Notice the piece of wreckage of one of the aircraft recently recovered from the loch at Island House
Ken Organ on his visit to An iodhlann on 16 August 2024 to view the RAF Tiree collection
