Trafford

Born during the June quarter 1923 in the Bucklow R.D. - ref: 8a/290, the
son of Thomas Daniel Maxwell & Elizabeth Mildred Pitts (nee Kennerley).

1939 NNational Registration - Ashley Heath Cottage, Ashley, Hale, Cheshire.
    Strangely, the family's first names have been swopped for their middle
names ???    We have, Mawell T. Pitts - born on the 10th February 1897 -
Married - occ: Coremaker Brass & Iron.   Mildred E. Pitts - born on the
10th June 1898 - Married - occ: Unpaid Domestic Duties.   Dorothy Pitts
born on the 29th March 1921 - Single - occ: Paid Domestic Duties.  
Frederick T. Pitts - born on the 22nd June 19323 - occ: Grocer's Shop
Assistant.  Plus 5 other younger siblings.- 2 of them redacted.

Wireless Operator/Air Gunner.   Killed in a flying accident Farnsfield,
Nottinghamshire.   Buried 12/07/1944 - Burial No. 12,121.

They took off at 19.11 hours from RAF Burn, Yorkshire, in a Halifax Mk III
- No. MZ519 LK-U, to bomb a V.1 Flying Bomb site at Croixdalle.   On their
return leg, they crashed at 22.28 hours about a mile south of Farnsfield,
12 miles from the centre of Nottingham.

The crew members were:- Pilot - Reginald Parfitt, aged: 22;  Flight
Engineer - Sgt. Raymond Albert Rolph, aged: 23;  Navigator - Flying Officer
Brian Grahame Turnidge, aged: 24;  Air Bomber - Flight Sgt. John Joseph
Godin RCAF, aged: 19;  Air Gunner - Sgt. Thomas Arthur Hill, aged: 22;  Air
Gunner - Sgt. Leonard Granville Leatham, aged: 20 and the above Sgt.
Pitts.

CWGC Headstone.

M.I. - "In loving memory of our dear son 'Fred'.  A constant thought, a
silent memory".

In July 1994, a memorial with a surrounding copse was dedicated to this
crew at Farnsfield.