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Description: | 1989.
Image shows the dedication taking place of the Memorial to the crew of the Halifax Bomber which crashed nearby this spot in Bradford Road. Details of this dedication are given in another image on Leodis at ID number 2007521_163658. The crash occurred on Thorpe Lane near the Bradford Road in West Ardsley on 14 November 1944 and it was witnessed by the 14 year-old Walter Townend, then a student at Morley Grammar School. The seven crewmen were all killed. Walter was determined to get a memorial erected for these men and this occurred in 1989 in the presence of some of the relatives of the dead airmen. Photograph from the david Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Bradford Road war | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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