Photo 1

Monument at the junction of Craiglockhart Road North and Craiglockhart Gardens
dedicated to the crew of the Wellington bomber that crashed at Craiglockhart in 1942

The Minister of Craiglockhart Church opened the ceremony at 3pm with '2 minute silence' and a prayer.
He then invited relatives of the Wellington's crew who died in the crash to unveiled the monument.

©  Copyright: Peter Stubbs  -   please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk                                               Photo taken November 11, 2012

Photo 2

Craiglockhart View, just round the corner from the new Monument.

It was in the back garden of the house on the left,
12 Craiglockhart View,  that Wellington III bomber X3707
crashed whilst on a flight from Turnhouse, testing equipment.

This page on the Aircrew Remembrance Society web site gives further details of the flight

©  Copyright: Peter Stubbs  -   please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk                                               Photo taken November 11, 2012

Photo 3

Representatives of the RAF and others chat
following the Unveiling Ceremony at the Monument

©  peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk                       Photo taken November 11, 2012

Photo 4

Jackie Dinger Bell, now aged 100, reads out the names of those who
lot their lives when the Wellington bomber crashed on 14 December 1942.

©  Copyright: Peter Stubbs  -   please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk                                               Photo taken November 11, 2012

Photo 5

Jackie Dinger Bell, lays a Wreath on the new Monument

©  Copyright: Peter Stubbs  -   please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk                                            Photo taken November 11, 2012

Photo 6

Jackie Dinger Bell recalls the the years when he worked
on Wellington bombers during World War 2,
and the dedicated men who built and flew the planes.

©  peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk                                                     Photo taken November 11, 2012

Photo 7

Wreath laid on the plaque at the top of the monument

© Copyright: Peter Stubbs  -   please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk                                           Photo taken November 11, 2012

Photo 8

Craiglockhart residents join Jackie Dinger Bell and his colleague beside
 the Monument as the crowd disperses at the end of the Ceremony.

© Copyright: Peter Stubbs  -   please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk                                           Photo taken November 11, 2012

Photo 9

The Plaque on the Top of the Monument

© Copyright: Peter Stubbs  -   please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk                                           Photo taken November 11, 2012