Memorial

Went for a walk near Dunsop Bridge with a couple of good friends today, and found this memorial.
 
Thought I'd do a bit of googling...
 
"On the night of the 18th of August 1941, PO Sharpe was on a night training flight from RAF Squires Gate (now Blackpool Airport), in a Boulton Paul Defiant Mk.1 when he crashed on Hawthornthwaite Fell near Abbeystead. Reports say the aircraft was flying straight and level when it hit ground at around 1,300 feet. PO Sharpe was found alive the next day having crawled around a mile from his wrecked aircraft, but sadly died in hospital from his injuries"
 
"In November 1941 a Mustang A6208 on a photographic sortie being flown by Flying Officer S. P. Marlatt of No. 4 squadron Royal Canadian Airforce crashed into the ground at cruising speed on Holdron Moss, around 2 miles from the village of Dunsop Bridge."
 
"Flight officer Wladyslaw Pucek of 317 squadron Polish Air Force crashed his Spitfire on nearby White Moss Fell.  Spitfire BL 802, 317 Squadron, aircraft accident returning from an operational flight, Northolt Aerodrome, Middlesex, 17 May 1942.
 
Tragic accidents in a time of war. Very poignant.