South Waterville Crash

I have the exact location of a mosquito bomber that crashed in South Waterville.
Will try to get a GPS reading later. (The road is now called the Prospect Road
and is south of and parallel with route #1). The two casualties are buried in Middleton.

The record of this burial at the Greenwood Military Aviation Museum is as follows:

24 April 1945.
Killed when Mosquito caught fire near Waterville, N.S.
F.O. J.N. Reedie, Pilot (RAAF)*
F.S.   H.B. Uren, Navigator  (RAAF)*
* Buried Holy Trinity Church Cemetery, Middleton N.S.

The main part of the fuselage burned . Clean up crew burned the scattered debris
(Craft was of wooden construction) and buried the metal including the motors.
Later a local citizen dug up the metal and sold it as scrap. I have several artifacts
from this crash including the propeller speed control lever, yellow knob.

-Richard Skinner, January 20, 2005

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