Robert Jackson Sudbury

1919 - 1943  (24 years)

• Name	Robert Jackson Sudbury
  Birth	17 Feb 1919	Waco, Texas
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	3899
  Death	14 Sep 1943	England
  Person ID	I3899	Brownlow
  Last Modified	16 Mar 2022

  
  

  Father	William Samuel Sudbury,   b. 13 Sep 1878, Rockdale, Milam County, Texas d. 18 Jul 1947, Waco, McLennan County , Trxas (Age 68 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mary Samantha Mollie Colvin,   b. 4 Mar 1887, Louisiana, USA d. 9 Jul 1959, Waco, McLennan County, Texas (Age 72 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	12 Sep 1909	Waco, Mclennan County, Texas
  Family ID	F1487	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - 14 Sep 1943 - England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Peak District Air Accident Research B-17E 41-9051 of the 813th BS / 482nd BG USAAF, crashed on Skiddaw near Keswick, on the 14th September 1943. The crew were on a cross country navigation flight from Alconbury, near Huntingdon, to RAF Turnhouse on the edge of Edinburgh (currently the city's airport). The accident investigators suggested that having been airborne for the lentgh of time it would have normally taken to fly from Alconbury to Edinburgh the pilot began a descent though the low cloud. While still in cloud at approximately 11:30am the aircraft flew into the south western side of Skiddaw and was destroyed by the crash and subsequent fire. The aircraft crashed on the steep scree slope on the south western side of Skiddaw a couple of hundred feet below the summit.