Date: 4th July 1942
Unit: No. 13 OTU (Operational Training Unit) R.A.F. Bicester, Oxfordshire
Type: Bristol Blenheim IV
Serial: R3912
Base: Bicester, Oxfordshire.
Take off: 09.50 hours.
Location: Pawlett Hams, Somerset.
Pilot: Sergeant James Anderson 591536 Age; 20, Killed
Observer: Sergeant Adam Hogg 1552074 Age; 33, Killed
Radio/Op: Sergeant Gilbert Ingram McBoyle 1178919 Age; 21, Killed
REASON FOR LOSS:
This aircraft took off from Bicester at 0950 hours on a training cross-country flight. Shortly before 1220, eyewitnesses saw the Blenheim in a near vertical dive, entering a large area of whitish cloud which was estimated to have its base at 3,000 to 5,000 feet. On emerging from cloud, the Blenheim appeared to straighten out but then dived again and crashed resulting in the tragic loss of the three airmen at Pawlett Hams on the E bank of the River Parrett, 4 miles north of Bridgwater, Somerset.
This crash site was excavated by Mr Tim Hake on the 14th July 2007, assisted and researched by David King, and Melvin Brownless from the Aircrew Remembrance Society, also Herr Rdiger Kaufmann, chairman of the Museumsverein fr Technik- und Luftfahrtgeschichte e.V, Dalldorf, Germany.
No. 13 O.T.U. Blenheims. 
Sgt. Adam Hogg. Sgt. James Anderson Sgt. Gilbert McBoyle. 
Burial Details:
Sergeant James Anderson 591536 Edinkillie Parish Churchyard. Plot A.8. Grave 71.5
Son of James & Jean Falconer Anderson, of Dunphail.
Sergeant Adam Hogg 1552074 Hawick (Wellogate) Cemetery. Burghal Portion. Grave 34.
Son of Adam & Margaret Hogg, of Hawick.
Sergeant Gilbert Ingram McBoyle 1178919 Bridgewater (Quantock Road) Cemetery. Sec. C. Grave 179. (Shown)
Son of George Ingram McBoyle and Hilda Kate McBoyle, of Fratton, Portsmouth.
Further details of the excavation carried out by the Aircrew Remembrance Society can be found in the archaeology section under the same title as this page. (Shortly to be added)
Research by David King (A.R.S.) Additions by Mike Harrison.
