Buheirat-Murrat-el-Kubra, Egypt. November 1941. The wreckage of the crashed Wellington U for ...

Accession Number P03249.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white, Landscape
Physical description Black & white, Landscape
Date made c November 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Buheirat-Murrat-el-Kubra, Egypt. November 1941. The wreckage of the crashed Wellington U for Uncle of No. 148 Squadron RAF, at Landing Ground 60 on the edge of Great Bitter Lake on 6 November 1941. 404110 Pilot Officer (PO) Hugh McMaster, pilot, was killed in the crash aged twenty five. He is buried in the Fayid War Cemetery in Egypt.

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