Hylton Daniel Ellis

A Sergeant with the Royal Air Force, Hylton died on 9th of December 1940 at the age of 26. 

Son of Hylton Charles and Agnes Harriet Ellis of 74 Sycamore Avenue Lowestoft. 

Hylton's widow, Alice, married his brother Richard who also died while serving with the RAF. Alice lived at Dinnington Colliery.  

Hylton served with 115 Squadron flying out of RAF Marham and was the Obersver/Nose Gunner on a Wellington bomber. Returning from a bombing mission to Bordeaux the aircraft went off course in very bad weather and flew into the Cefn Yr Ystrad mountain near Tredegar in Wales. All of the crew were killed. 

An account of what happened to Hylton and how this has been remembered appears in Wales Online at 

Wellington bomber crew that crashed in Wales remembered - Wales Online

He was killed whilst flying in Wellington IC, T2520 KD-A of No 115 Sqn, which crashed into a hill in Wales on its return from a raid to Bordeaux.  He is buried in North Gosforth Joint Burial Ground CREDIT:Malcolm Barrass