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RD14927. The 2ft gauge Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railway held a 'Quirks & Curiosities II” Gala over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend in 2017. This culminated with a Grand Cavalcade of all the visiting quirks and curiosities at Porthmadog Harbour Station on the Monday and this was led by the FR's resident Single Fairlie 0-4-4T TALIESIN hauling a well waggon containing a 7¼ inch gauge model of himself named ANEIRIN.
This had spent the rest of the weekend running up and a specially laid length of 7¼ inch gauge track in Minffordd Yard.
On the left is Kerr, Stuart 2ft gauge 0-4-0T DIANA which is now fully restored; she made her début at the Vale of Rheidol Railway over the weekend of 26th / 27th September, 2015.
She had previously worked at the Pen yr Orsedd Slate Quarry in North Wales but, prior to that, she worked at the Oakley Slate Quarries in Blaenau Ffestiniog, and even earlier she had worked on the Kerry Tramway in mid-Wales. She last worked in 1950 and languished in the back of a dark and dingy shed at Pen yr Orsedd until rescued for preservation in August, 1963 - a process that has taken many years, and several owners, to compete.
She is now a credit to her present owner and the team that worked on her in the Vale of Rheidol Railway's splendid new workshops at Aberystwyth.
Monday, 1st May, 2017. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
RD14938. The 2ft gauge Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railway held a 'Quirks & Curiosities II” Gala over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend in 2017.
This culminated with a Grand Cavalcade of all the visiting quirks and curiosities at Porthmadog Harbour Station on the Monday and among the numerous weird and wonderful devices to be seen was SAMSOM, a recreation of the original 0-4-0 locomotive of this name built by Stephen Lewin in Poole in 1874. It was built for the London Lead Company's Cornish Hush lead mine in Co. Durham. It only had a short working life operating over a one mile long tramway until the mine closed in 1904.
It was of unusual design resembling a traction engine with crankshaft and flywheel drive. The original was 1ft 10in gauge, but this replica, built at the Beamish Openair Museum, is 2ft gauge which mean that it can make guest appearances on other railways.
The Beamish recreation was produced from one photograph and two engravings of the original. During most of the Festiniog's 'Q&CII' gala weekend it was on display and steaming up and down in Minffordd Yard.
In the background is Davenport 0-4-0 RYAM SUGAR COMPANY No.1, built in 1917 for a sugar company in India; when they had finished with the locomotive, they simply dumped it. It fell into dereliction with trees growing through the wheels and motion! However, it was imported from India in 2013 and, despite its deplorable condition, lovingly restored to its former glory at the private Statfold Barn Railway in Staffordshire.
Monday, 1st May, 2017. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
quirks like this unfurled petal probably caused by the cooler temps... it was just hanging around in the back saying "let me out, let me out"...
Found during a night hike in kanuku mountains.
In a curious quirk of evolution, the Deinopidae or net casting spiders which branched early on from the araneids combine web building with a more active hunting strategy. They build a small rectangular web, stretch it between their front two pairs of legs and dangling motionlessly above their prey, ambush them. Unlike in araneids, the capture silk is replaced with cribellate silk (which gives it a wooly appearance), however it remains just as efficient at trapping prey. Deinopid webs remain similar to the aforementioned orbweaver template with several variations important for prey capture. Dangling as it does, how does a deinopid drop fast enough to ensnare its prey? The answer lies in two modifications to web design. First, a vertical safety thread tethers the web and gives it a slight conical shape while construction is in progress. When the web is completed, the spider holds this high tension safety thread with its second pair of hind legs. When prey passes by, it releases the safety line catapulting the spider forward at great speed. Another difference is the use of a bridge line, built slightly above the capture web. This line is held with with the first pair of hind legs and allows the spider a surface to pull down on to generate a downward force.
Hanging pendulously from their her, she remains still, her camouflaged form allowing her to blend in seamlessly with the branches overhead. She waits until nightfall when her huge anterior median eyes provide an unrivalled night vision, their lenses with an f/0.58 (f=aperture size, smaller number being large diameter) mean they are able to concentrate light more efficiently than a cat (f/0.9) or an owl (f/1.1). She owes this sensitivity to the light activated molecule rhodopsin, tightly packed into a microvillar membrane (which dramatically increases the surface area). Amazingly, 1500 times as many photons reach the light receptors in her eyes than the rods in our own eyes. She even accomplished this without the presence of a tapetum, a reflective membrane used to concentrate available light in many other nocturnal animals. Her preparation is impressive, she has staked out an ambush location, first having inspected it for loose debris and anything that might entangle her web, next she builds her web tentatively prodding the ground with her foot, ensuring it is set at the proper height. She may have even gone so far as to drop several faecal spots to guide her aim. In this manner she hangs, and patiently waits … An insect passes below, oblivious to the danger above. In a fraction of a second, the safety line has been cut, the web has been stretched 4 times its former size and before the insect even recognizes the danger, it finds itself helplessly trapped, venom coursing through its body. She feeds. However her work is not done. The rhodopsin which enables her unparalleled night vision is so sensitive to light that daytime exposure would actually destroy it. Thus, at dawn, the spider spends the first 2 hours dismantling the light sensitive microvillar membrane and rhodopsin molecules. The latter subsequently migrate behind a protective pigment layer, effectively rendering them less sensitive to light. When dusk falls, the light sensitive membrane is once again renewed, web building is resumed and the hunt can begin anew.
Yesterday the tire flew off my minibus, I cut the head off a pit viper and I was banned from a commercial flight by associating with a narco-trafficker. Today I am bushwhacking through the jungle in the remote trail-less backwaters of Guyana, waist deep in water and praying to make it through the rest of the day alive. What will tomorrow bring? God only knows. The adventure starts here- pbertner.wordpress.com/.
*GTWL* this week is "Quirks" .. so yeah.. i have a thing about butter.. always have. i know the difference between real butter and the fake stuff.. when i was a kid at the dinner table one night my mom decided to test it out ~ mainly to get my brother and i to stop arguing about it .. so she blind folded me and had my brother spread on bite of bread with real stuff.. and the other with the spread.. well, .. i didn't even need that second bite.. i yelled out .. "that's the real stuff " followed by a ... told ya so.. lol now don't get me wrong i do love margarine.. on certain things .. but on some things .. like corn... it's gotta be the REAL thing!
Photographer: Nagi Marie Quirk
Model: Reiko Motobu Winchell
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I spent an hour or so in Ypsilanti's Depot Town neighborhood on the afternoon of January 29, 2014. It was a nice sunny but cold winter day, the sun offering a nice counterpoint to the snow and cold temps of the preceding days.
In front is the Towner House, built in 1837 and Ypsilanti's oldest house on its original foundation: Towner House Additions over the years have recently been removed to restore the house to a more original appearance. Unfortunately, the house stands empty.
The Quirk Mansion is one of the most interesting historic homes in Ypsilanti. The home was built by Daniel Lace Quirk about 1860 in Second Empire style with mansard roof. Quirk's children donated the house to the city of Ypsilanti in 1911, and it served for several years as the City Hall. The mansion is presently used as private offices and the property owners reside in apartments on the top floor. Other historic photos may be seen here.
Quirk Mansion
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Another oldie from October 2012.
Photographer/Director: Nagi Marie Quirk
Model: Holly Saikou Bruenning
MUA: Shera Vanya Griffin
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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Found during a night hike in Mindo cloud forest, Ecuador.
In a curious quirk of evolution, the Deinopidae or net casting spiders which branched early on from the araneids combine web building with a more active hunting strategy. They build a small rectangular web, stretch it between their front two pairs of legs and dangling motionlessly above their prey, ambush them. Unlike in araneids, the capture silk is replaced with cribellate silk (which gives it a wooly appearance), however it remains just as efficient at trapping prey. Deinopid webs remain similar to the aforementioned orbweaver template with several variations important for prey capture. Dangling as it does, how does a deinopid drop fast enough to ensnare its prey? The answer lies in two modifications to web design. First, a vertical safety thread tethers the web and gives it a slight conical shape while construction is in progress. When the web is completed, the spider holds this high tension safety thread with its second pair of hind legs. When prey passes by, it releases the safety line catapulting the spider forward at great speed. Another difference is the use of a bridge line, built slightly above the capture web. This line is held with with the first pair of hind legs and allows the spider a surface to pull down on to generate a downward force.
Hanging pendulously from their her, she remains still, her camouflaged form allowing her to blend in seamlessly with the branches overhead. She waits until nightfall when her huge anterior median eyes provide an unrivalled night vision, their lenses with an f/0.58 (f=aperture size, smaller number being large diameter) mean they are able to concentrate light more efficiently than a cat (f/0.9) or an owl (f/1.1). She owes this sensitivity to the light activated molecule rhodopsin, tightly packed into a microvillar membrane (which dramatically increases the surface area). Amazingly, 1500 times as many photons reach the light receptors in her eyes than the rods in our own eyes. She even accomplished this without the presence of a tapetum, a reflective membrane used to concentrate available light in many other nocturnal animals. Her preparation is impressive, she has staked out an ambush location, first having inspected it for loose debris and anything that might entangle her web, next she builds her web tentatively prodding the ground with her foot, ensuring it is set at the proper height. She may have even gone so far as to drop several faecal spots to guide her aim. In this manner she hangs, and patiently waits … An insect passes below, oblivious to the danger above. In a fraction of a second, the safety line has been cut, the web has been stretched 4 times its former size and before the insect even recognizes the danger, it finds itself helplessly trapped, venom coursing through its body. She feeds. However her work is not done. The rhodopsin which enables her unparalleled night vision is so sensitive to light that daytime exposure would actually destroy it. Thus, at dawn, the spider spends the first 2 hours dismantling the light sensitive microvillar membrane and rhodopsin molecules. The latter subsequently migrate behind a protective pigment layer, effectively rendering them less sensitive to light. When dusk falls, the light sensitive membrane is once again renewed, web building is resumed and the hunt can begin anew.
Yesterday the tire flew off my minibus, I cut the head off a pit viper and I was banned from a commercial flight by associating with a narco-trafficker. Today I am bushwhacking through the jungle in the remote trail-less backwaters of Guyana, waist deep in water and praying to make it through the rest of the day alive. What will tomorrow bring? God only knows. The adventure starts here- pbertner.wordpress.com/.
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My buddy, Way Ahead Photography (http://www.flickr.com/photos/luke_y/4298973400/), tagged me to list eight quirky things about myself and then tag 8 friends to do the same.
So, here goes... Since my life has been a set of contradictions and oddities, I guess this is the best time to confess. :-}
Eight Quirky Things About Me.
1. When I take personality tests, I am somewhat of a chameleon, in that the scores could very easily waiver. I take this to mean I can adapt, and get along in most situations.
2. I am mostly right-handed, but can do many tasks with my left hand.
3. Starting a family when I was young, I ended up sowing my 'wild oats' when most people were 'settling down'.
4. To make a decision, I need to know the pertinent facts, but once I get them, I am very decisive.
5. I did not finish high school, but I have a college degree.
6. I am a nerd, and I love new technology, but I am not one to jump on 'bleeding edge' technology.
7. To me, learning and teaching go hand-in-hand with living life to the fullest. I find when I teach/mentor others, I also learn from it. Joining flickr was a way for me to learn more about photography.
8. I think a person must be happy with who they are before they can have a meaningful relationship (i.e. another person cannot make you happy, it is a personal phenomenon).
For the 8 tagged (by People in this Photo), if you have already been tagged, just add me to your 'been tagged by' list. :-D
The Freeman Square Memorial reads:-
“To the memory of the under mentioned members of 753rd Squadron, 458th Bomb Group, 2nd Bombardment Division USAAF, who died near this spot, 24th November 1944.
The Pilot of this Bomber as his last act avoiding crashing on this and surrounding cottages thus preventing the possible loss of civilian lives.
2/Lt. Ralph J Dooley. Pilot 74-4 E. Ontario Street, Philadelphia PA
2/Lt. Arthur Akin Jnr. Pilot. 92 Wallace Circle, Portsmouth VA
2/Lt.Paul E. Gorman. Navigator. 2542 East, 29th St. Brooklyn. NY
S/Sgt John J.Jones. Waist Gunner. General Delivery, Gem. Texas.
S/Sgt Phil A Wadsworth, Radio Operator. P.O Box 635, Forsan, Texas.
S/Sgt Oscar B. Nelson, Ball Turret Gunner, Vashon, Wash.
S/Sgt John A.Phillips, Engineer. North Main St, Norwood, Norfolk NY
S/Sgt Don P Quirk, Tail Gunner, Muncie, Ind.
S/Sgt Ralph von Bergen, Waist Gunner. 607(?) Lipan Street, Denver, Colorado.
**********Crash of Liberator 42-95133 458/753-K 1944************
Eastern Daily Press - 3rd December 2010. Derek James.
Nine white roses, each representing a young life, were laid on a cold day near a busy road in Norwich.
As the traffic sped past us we stood in quiet reflection to remember the young men who lost their lives on the same day in 1944.
Since then this part of Norwich, Heigham Street, has completely changed and has been re-developed with new homes and industrial developments.
But as we put the roses on the memorial in Freeman Square our thoughts went back to that terrible November day as pilot Ralph Dooley struggled with the controls of his stricken Liberator, looking for a way to avoid crashing on houses.
While we could imagine what it would have been like, eye-witnesses from that day have never forgotten watching from the ground as the mighty bomber – named the Lady Jane – fell out of the sky.
The people gathered for this short and moving service, conducted by the Rev Elsie Hutcheon of St Barnabas Church, where there is a memorial to the men, all had their reasons for attending... and remembering.
As sheriff and sheriff’s lady, my wife and I, were representing you at this special service. Among the congregation was author Richard Clements who wrote a book In Search of the Lady Jane and artist Mike Bailey who painted the tragedy.
Others remember the incident as if it were yesterday. The huge bomber was in trouble when it flew in, low over the city, on November 24 1944, narrowly missing St John’s Cathedral – a landmark for American planes.
People, children at the time, said the noise was deafening. The Lady Jane was almost on its side as pilot Dooley, aged just 20, fought the controls, searching for waste ground. The plane then clipped the top of the old St Philips Church. The pilot brought it down on one of the few areas without houses – the corporation yard – and it exploded in a ball of fire. The crew didn’t stand a chance.
The boys in the Lady Jane, all in their early 20s, will never be forgotten.
www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/derek-james/remembering_the_...
Lady Jane was a B-24H-25 model Liberator, serial number 42-95133 and was part of the 753rd Squadron, 458th Bombardment Group.
Accident Report 45-11-24-516: On 24 November 1944 at 1730 hours, A/C B-24 (H) 42-95133 returning from a Practice Mission and in the process of making an instrument landing approach to AAF Station 123. The weather was: 3900 yards Viz, with 400-600 foot ceiling, 10/10ths coverage and the wind NW at 12-14MPH.
The A/C hit the steeple of St. Phillips Church on Hamm Road, damaging the right wing and right tail assembly and continued 1000 yards, apparently in normal flight at which time the right wing dropped and the ship crashed and burned. Wreckage shows that landing gear was retracted.
Mr. A. Hindry and Mr. George Baxter, employees of Baker Street Corporation and eye witnesses of the accident declared the A/C descended at a steep angle and in an abnormal flying attitude.
The result was total loss of A/C and all personnel. Damage to civilian property was negligible. There were no civilians injured.
- #Eyewitness statements
1Lt Cliff D. Gersbach, 752nd Squadron: "I was standing at the corner of Earlham and Mill Hill Road, Norwich, 24 November 1944 at approximately 1700 hours when B-24H Airplane No. 42-95133 made a 180 degree left turn in a vertical bank almost overhead. The airplane was flying about 200 feet above the housetops and I noticed that it was losing altitude (slipping off on the left wing). The turn was so sharp that the wings were vertical to the ground. The airplane started to level out from the turn and disappeared from sight for a moment; by that time it was skimming the housetops; when I heard a sharp crash, which was reported by an RAF Sergeant to be caused when the right wing of the airplane hit the top of the tower on St. Phillip's Church (Hamm Road). After hitting the church, the airplane reappeared in a steep climb gaining about 300 feet altitude when it fell off on the right wing, crashed and burned.
"The tip of the right wing and part of the right rudder were torn off when the airplane hit the church. The airplane appeared to be under control after hitting the church and it appeared that the pilot stalled it out by trying to gain altitude too fast, causing it to fall off on the right or damaged wing and crash about 1000 yards from the church.
"The airplane seemed to be having no mechanical difficulties and the engines were apparently running normally. The landing gear was retracted."
2Lt Edwin J. Sealy, pilot 755th Squadron: "We had just broken into the clear after an instrument letdown and had circled the town of Norwich once when we saw an aircraft approximately two miles in front of us apparently flying straight and level. The plane started a steep bank to the left and continued the bank onto its back. Then it dived into the ground and exploded immediately. I learned later that this A/C was 113-K of my own base."
There are several pictures of the crew amd a letter of thanks from a Mrs E Notley of 43 Mancroft Street, Norwich, thanking the crew for the efforts they made to avoid coming down on houses
www.458bg.com/crewba80dooley.htm
The Lady Jane was a Liberator bomber aircraft which crashed, close to where Eagle Canoe Centre now is, in 1944 killing all of its crew. The pilot had fought to steer the aircraft away from a row of cottages nearby.
In memory of those who died so close to our Club base a trophy was made by club member Richard Clements and we have a four-paddler canoe race for it every year at our Friends and family day, usually in July.
The bomber was a B.24H, serial number 24-95133, reputedly named the Lady Jane, from the 753rd Bomb Squadron, 458th Bomb Group. The crash happened on 24th November 1944 at about 17:00 and the aircraft was on a training flight from Horsham St. Faith airfield. It struck a glancing blow on the now-demolished Saint Philips Church tower. Approximately six foot of one wing was lost and the aircraft crashed a few hundred yards away in open space near Barker Street, at a Corporation road depot off Heigham Street.
Crew members were:
2/Lt Ralph J. Dooley 2/Lt Arthur C. Akin Jr. 2/Lt Paul E. Gorman S/Sgt John J Jones S/Sgt Paul A. Wadsworth S/Sgt Oscar B. Nelson S/Sgt John A. Phillips S/Sgt Don P. Quirk* S/Sgt Ralph W. von Bergen*
* Buried at the American Military Cemetry, Cambridge.
members.fortunecity.co.uk/eaglecanoeclub/ladyjane.htm
Arthur Akin
There is a pay to view page for Arthur Claude Akin, born 1922 and died 24th November 1944, on Ancestry. It gives his parents as Father: Arthur Claude Akin
Mother: Ocie Lee
records.ancestry.com/Arthur_Claude_Akin_WorlWar_Ii_record...
It seems he’d “pancaked” another B-24 on the airfield on the 2nd October
www.458bg.com/crewaz01fuson.htm
www.458bg.com/Aircraft/PDFsheet/BadGirlData_WEB.pdf
Arthur is now buried at Barrancas National Cemetery, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL
. He is listed as Arthur C. Akin, born 21st March 1922.
John A Phillips
Staff Sgt. John A. Phillips, 22, Norwood, Serving in England
Norwood, Dec. 11--Staff Sgt. John A. Phillips, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Phillips, North Main Street, Norwood, was killed in the crash of a B-24 Liberator bomber on Nov. 24 in England, his parents have been notified by a war department telegram. No other details of the tragedy were received.
On Saturday, the parents received a letter from Leonard J. McMananon, chaplain serving in England, which stated that their son's body and those of the others of the bomber crew who met death, were buried with full military rites in England on Nov. 28.
Sergeant Phillips, nose gunner aboard the Eighth Air Force B-24, was born in Norfolk on March 17, 1922. The family moved to Norwood while John was still a child. He was graduated from Norwood High School in 1941. He entered military service on Oct. 10, 1942, and received basic training at Camp Robinson, Ark.
On Dec. 10, 1942, he was sent to the Aleutian Islands where he was stationed until Oct. 10, 1943. Returning to this country, he was sent to Laredo, Tex., to gunnery school.
Last July he visited his parents on furlough and upon returning to duty, he went to England, where he had since been stationed.
Surviving are his parents; one brother, Cpl Joseph Phillips, now stationed in Australia, and six sisters, Mrs. Lester (Anne) Gagnon, Norwood; Mrs. William (Julia) Yolton, Waddington; Mrs. Leo (Eleanor) Farnsworth, Potsdam; Mrs. Thomas (Alice) Gagnon, Perr, Fla., Mrs. Vernon (Mary) Young, Lawrence, Kan., and Miss Hilda Phillips, residing at home.
(SLCHA Scrapbook; Watertown Daily Times)
(There are more reports at the same web-site. It also notes his body was later returned to the United States.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~slccemeteries/...
Don Pete Quirk
Don Pete Quirk, b. 10 Jun 1920, Indiana; d. 24 Nov 1944, in World War II.
wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Family:Whitney,_Sherman...(1867-1933)
Photographer: Nagi Marie Quirk
Model: Tomoko Peters
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One quirk of QUBE's Deniliquin rice train since it's resurrection has been the use of 9095/9096 instead of 9071/9072 as the train number; with the numbers in the 909x range normally used by SSR for grain services.
As a result, it was only a matter of time before we got two consecutive 9096 trains one day after the other with one from each operator. That happened on the 21st and 22nd of October 2025, with SSR's Kensington rake seen on the evening of the 21st running as 9096 from Deniliquin with N463 "City of Bendigo" and N455 "City of Swan Hill", while the next night was QUBE's turn with VL353 "Comic Court" and VL360 "Gurner's Lane" on the rice train to Victoria Dock.
Video available at: youtu.be/n2KGZSpB3_o
Subject: Quirk, Agnes J
United States Dept. of Agriculture
Type: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1932
Topic: Plant diseases
Women scientists
Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1767]
Summary: Agnes J. Quirk was a plant pathologist in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Laboratory of Plant Pathology, where she worked on crown gall disease
Cite as: Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives
Persistent URL:Link to data base record
Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives
Photographer: Nagi Marie Quirk
Model: Angela Peña
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Performer - Little Quirks, Photo by Adam Purcell - Melbourne Ceili Camera, National Folk Festival, 18 April 2022.
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it's one of my quirks, so I had to get my toes and a manhole cover!
(there are more to come - of course!)
"Victoria & Alfred Waterfront"
Cape Town
South Africa
Civilians Who Lost Their Lives Through Enemy Action.
May Alden
Ephraim Austin
Charlotte Hansell
Benjamin Hayhoe
William Meek
Bertram Utting
In memory of the crew of the B24 Liberator 42-95133 458/753-K
Who lost their lives on the 24th November 1944
In this Parish.
2nd / Lt Ralph J Dooley
2nd / Lt. Arthur Akin Jnr
2nd / Lt. Paul E. Gorman
S/Sgt John J. Jones
S/Sgt Paul A.Wadsworth
S.Sgt Oscar B.Nelson
S/Sgt John A. Phillips
S/Sgt Don Pete Quirk
S/Sgt Ralph Von Bergen
***************************************************************
May Alden*************************************************
Name: ALDEN, MAY BLANCHE
Civilian War Dead
Age: 60
Date of Death: 29/04/1942
Additional information: of 4 Home Street, Heigham Street. Widow of Isaac John Alden. Died at Raynham Street.
Reporting Authority: NORWICH, COUNTY BOROUGH
CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=3146158
Ephraim Austin*****************************************************
Name: AUSTIN, EPHRAIM
Civilian War Dead
Age: 84
Date of Death: 07/05/1942
Additional information: Husband of the late Frances Elizabeth Austin. Died of shock as a result of the April bombing, at The Lodge, Bowthorpe Road.
Reporting Authority: NORWICH, COUNTY BOROUGH
CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=4032367
Charlotte Hansell***************************************************
Name: HANSELL, CHARLOTTE PHOEBE
Civilian War Dead
Age: 55
Date of Death: 28/04/1942
Additional information: of 27 Orchard Street. Daughter of Mrs. S. Chapman, of 71 Knowsley Road; widow of William Russell Hnsell. Injured at 27 Orchard Street; died same day at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.
Reporting Authority: NORWICH, COUNTY BOROUGH
CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=3146280
Benjiman Hayhoe***********************************************
Name: HAYHOE, BENJAMIN
Civilian War Dead
Age: 52
Date of Death: 28/04/1942
Additional information: Firewatcher; of 7 Clifton Street. Husband of Clara E. Hayhoe. Died at Northumberland Street Shelter.
Reporting Authority: NORWICH, COUNTY BOROUGH
CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=3146283
Benjamin was a Nurse at a Public Assistance Hospital.
www.edp24.co.uk/lifestyle/family-history/victims-of-the-b...
William Meek**********************************************
Name: MEEK, WILLIAM HENRY ROBERT
Civilian War
Dead Age: 82
Date of Death: 07/05/1942
Additional information: of 11 Midland Street. Died at The Lodge, Bowthorpe Road. Reporting Authority: NORWICH, COUNTY BOROUGH
CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=3146349
William was a retired Bricklayer
www.edp24.co.uk/lifestyle/family-history/victims-of-the-b...
Bertram Utting************************************************
Name: UTTING, BERTRAM EDWARD
Civilian War Dead
Age: 41
Date of Death: 29/04/1942
Additional information: of 39 Midland Street. Son of Brian E. Utting, of West Farm, Attleborough; husband of Beatrice Utting. Died at Greyhound Opening.
Reporting Authority: NORWICH, COUNTY BOROUGH
CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=3146460
Bertram was a Motor Mechanic
www.edp24.co.uk/lifestyle/family-history/victims-of-the-b...
******************Crash of Liberator 42-95133 458/753-K 1944**************
Eastern Daily Press - 3rd December 2010. Derek James.
Nine white roses, each representing a young life, were laid on a cold day near a busy road in Norwich.
As the traffic sped past us we stood in quiet reflection to remember the young men who lost their lives on the same day in 1944.
Since then this part of Norwich, Heigham Street, has completely changed and has been re-developed with new homes and industrial developments.
But as we put the roses on the memorial in Freeman Square our thoughts went back to that terrible November day as pilot Ralph Dooley struggled with the controls of his stricken Liberator, looking for a way to avoid crashing on houses.
While we could imagine what it would have been like, eye-witnesses from that day have never forgotten watching from the ground as the mighty bomber – named the Lady Jane – fell out of the sky.
The people gathered for this short and moving service, conducted by the Rev Elsie Hutcheon of St Barnabas Church, where there is a memorial to the men, all had their reasons for attending... and remembering.
As sheriff and sheriff’s lady, my wife and I, were representing you at this special service. Among the congregation was author Richard Clements who wrote a book In Search of the Lady Jane and artist Mike Bailey who painted the tragedy.
Others remember the incident as if it were yesterday. The huge bomber was in trouble when it flew in, low over the city, on November 24 1944, narrowly missing St John’s Cathedral – a landmark for American planes.
People, children at the time, said the noise was deafening. The Lady Jane was almost on its side as pilot Dooley, aged just 20, fought the controls, searching for waste ground. The plane then clipped the top of the old St Philips Church. The pilot brought it down on one of the few areas without houses – the corporation yard – and it exploded in a ball of fire. The crew didn’t stand a chance.
The boys in the Lady Jane, all in their early 20s, will never be forgotten.
www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/derek-james/remembering_the_...
Lady Jane was a B-24H-25 model Liberator, serial number 42-95133 and was part of the 753rd Squadron, 458th Bombardment Group.
Accident Report 45-11-24-516: On 24 November 1944 at 1730 hours, A/C B-24 (H) 42-95133 returning from a Practice Mission and in the process of making an instrument landing approach to AAF Station 123. The weather was: 3900 yards Viz, with 400-600 foot ceiling, 10/10ths coverage and the wind NW at 12-14MPH.
The A/C hit the steeple of St. Phillips Church on Hamm Road, damaging the right wing and right tail assembly and continued 1000 yards, apparently in normal flight at which time the right wing dropped and the ship crashed and burned. Wreckage shows that landing gear was retracted.
Mr. A. Hindry and Mr. George Baxter, employees of Baker Street Corporation and eye witnesses of the accident declared the A/C descended at a steep angle and in an abnormal flying attitude.
The result was total loss of A/C and all personnel. Damage to civilian property was negligible. There were no civilians injured.
- #Eyewitness statements
1Lt Cliff D. Gersbach, 752nd Squadron: "I was standing at the corner of Earlham and Mill Hill Road, Norwich, 24 November 1944 at approximately 1700 hours when B-24H Airplane No. 42-95133 made a 180 degree left turn in a vertical bank almost overhead. The airplane was flying about 200 feet above the housetops and I noticed that it was losing altitude (slipping off on the left wing). The turn was so sharp that the wings were vertical to the ground. The airplane started to level out from the turn and disappeared from sight for a moment; by that time it was skimming the housetops; when I heard a sharp crash, which was reported by an RAF Sergeant to be caused when the right wing of the airplane hit the top of the tower on St. Phillip's Church (Hamm Road). After hitting the church, the airplane reappeared in a steep climb gaining about 300 feet altitude when it fell off on the right wing, crashed and burned.
"The tip of the right wing and part of the right rudder were torn off when the airplane hit the church. The airplane appeared to be under control after hitting the church and it appeared that the pilot stalled it out by trying to gain altitude too fast, causing it to fall off on the right or damaged wing and crash about 1000 yards from the church.
"The airplane seemed to be having no mechanical difficulties and the engines were apparently running normally. The landing gear was retracted."
2Lt Edwin J. Sealy, pilot 755th Squadron: "We had just broken into the clear after an instrument letdown and had circled the town of Norwich once when we saw an aircraft approximately two miles in front of us apparently flying straight and level. The plane started a steep bank to the left and continued the bank onto its back. Then it dived into the ground and exploded immediately. I learned later that this A/C was 113-K of my own base."
There are several pictures of the crew amd a letter of thanks from a Mrs E Notley of 43 Mancroft Street, Norwich, thanking the crew for the efforts they made to avoid coming down on houses
www.458bg.com/crewba80dooley.htm
The Lady Jane was a Liberator bomber aircraft which crashed, close to where Eagle Canoe Centre now is, in 1944 killing all of its crew. The pilot had fought to steer the aircraft away from a row of cottages nearby.
In memory of those who died so close to our Club base a trophy was made by club member Richard Clements and we have a four-paddler canoe race for it every year at our Friends and family day, usually in July.
The bomber was a B.24H, serial number 24-95133, reputedly named the Lady Jane, from the 753rd Bomb Squadron, 458th Bomb Group. The crash happened on 24th November 1944 at about 17:00 and the aircraft was on a training flight from Horsham St. Faith airfield. It struck a glancing blow on the now-demolished Saint Philips Church tower. Approximately six foot of one wing was lost and the aircraft crashed a few hundred yards away in open space near Barker Street, at a Corporation road depot off Heigham Street.
Crew members were:
2/Lt Ralph J. Dooley 2/Lt Arthur C. Akin Jr. 2/Lt Paul E. Gorman S/Sgt John J Jones S/Sgt Paul A. Wadsworth S/Sgt Oscar B. Nelson S/Sgt John A. Phillips S/Sgt Don P. Quirk* S/Sgt Ralph W. von Bergen*
* Buried at the American Military Cemetry, Cambridge.
members.fortunecity.co.uk/eaglecanoeclub/ladyjane.htm
Arthur Akin
There is a pay to view page for Arthur Claude Akin, born 1922 and died 24th November 1944, on Ancestry. It gives his parents as Father: Arthur Claude Akin
Mother: Ocie Lee
records.ancestry.com/Arthur_Claude_Akin_WorlWar_Ii_record...
It seems he’d “pancaked” another B-24 on the airfield on the 2nd October
www.458bg.com/crewaz01fuson.htm
www.458bg.com/Aircraft/PDFsheet/BadGirlData_WEB.pdf
Arthur is now buried at Barrancas National Cemetery, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL
. He is listed as Arthur C. Akin, born 21st March 1922.
John A Phillips
Staff Sgt. John A. Phillips, 22, Norwood, Serving in England
Norwood, Dec. 11--Staff Sgt. John A. Phillips, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Phillips, North Main Street, Norwood, was killed in the crash of a B-24 Liberator bomber on Nov. 24 in England, his parents have been notified by a war department telegram. No other details of the tragedy were received.
On Saturday, the parents received a letter from Leonard J. McMananon, chaplain serving in England, which stated that their son's body and those of the others of the bomber crew who met death, were buried with full military rites in England on Nov. 28.
Sergeant Phillips, nose gunner aboard the Eighth Air Force B-24, was born in Norfolk on March 17, 1922. The family moved to Norwood while John was still a child. He was graduated from Norwood High School in 1941. He entered military service on Oct. 10, 1942, and received basic training at Camp Robinson, Ark.
On Dec. 10, 1942, he was sent to the Aleutian Islands where he was stationed until Oct. 10, 1943. Returning to this country, he was sent to Laredo, Tex., to gunnery school.
Last July he visited his parents on furlough and upon returning to duty, he went to England, where he had since been stationed.
Surviving are his parents; one brother, Cpl Joseph Phillips, now stationed in Australia, and six sisters, Mrs. Lester (Anne) Gagnon, Norwood; Mrs. William (Julia) Yolton, Waddington; Mrs. Leo (Eleanor) Farnsworth, Potsdam; Mrs. Thomas (Alice) Gagnon, Perr, Fla., Mrs. Vernon (Mary) Young, Lawrence, Kan., and Miss Hilda Phillips, residing at home.
(SLCHA Scrapbook; Watertown Daily Times)
(There are more reports at the same web-site. It also notes his body was later returned to the United States.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~slccemeteries/...
Don Pete Quirk
Don Pete Quirk, b. 10 Jun 1920, Indiana; d. 24 Nov 1944, in World War II.
wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Family:Whitney,_Sherman...(1867-1933)
4128 Côte de Cap-Rouge.
Cette résidence, caractérisée par son revêtement de crépi, ses
lucarnes à croupe et ses dimensions imposantes, aurait été
construite après 1860. Jusqu'en 1893 le propriétaire était
Michel O'Brien Quirk. L'immeuble a servi d'auberge au XIX
e siècle et il est possible que le Conseil municipal y ait siégé.