Richard Charles Gray – Heroes Of Our Time …
Recently an email was received at the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum, from a family who are tidying up their late Father’s work on his research into fallen heroes of past wars.
Some of that research was obviously carried out at the Flixton Museum as there are many pictures in his archives of our aircraft, memorials and the artefacts that we have on display. These pictures are reproduced on his website “Heroes Of Our Time” and there are links within the website back to our Museum.
The email note, some specific links and a few photos are below for interested parties to follow.
To: Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Musem,
I am writing to you concerning a website we have recently setup in honour of my father Richard Charles Gray who passed away in 2017.
My father was a great believer in researching and respecting fallen heroes of past wars.
He dedicated a lot of his time to researching and ensuring those lost souls really got the respect they deserved and most importantly were never forgotten.
A couple of weeks ago we took his ashes to Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre and had the privilege of being able to scatter them behind a Lancaster Bomber from WW2 / Dambusters era whilst it had the engines on full thrust – quite an experience
Over the past few weeks I have been working through all the research he had done on war veterans (2668 documents and 6311 photos) and compiling them into a website so that none of his work went to waste, so please anyone you know who has an interest in war history etc please pass on the link below.
In fact, one of the air crashes he investigated was in his home village of Hindolveston – the Wellington BK440 which I believe you have some of the wreckage for your museum!
Thanks!
Kind regards Donna Gray (daughter) and Darren Rose
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The link to the website can be found at Heros of Our Time
With details of the Wellington crash at Wellington BK440
Some images of the Wellington BK440 artefacts that we have at NASAM:
