Date:	Saturday 21 June 1941
Time:	day
Type:	De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	21 EFTS RAF
Registration:	R4955
MSN:	82739
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near South Weston, 1 mile West of Postcombe, Oxfordshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Booker, near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 82863 (Gipsy Major #82739); Taken on charge as R4955 at 5 MU RAF Kemble, Gloucestershire 1.3.40. To 13 EFTS RAF White Waltham, Maidenhead, Berskhire 30.7.40; to RAF Peterborough, Cambridgeshire 12.40. To 21 EFTS RAF Booker, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire 2.6.41.

Written off when spun into the ground 21.6.41; crashed near South Weston, 1 mile West of Postcombe, Oxfordshire 21.6.41. Of the two crew - Flight Lieutenant Thomas Edmund Wesson RAF (Service Number 70724 Instructor) - killed; Leading Aircraftman F J Jackson (Pilot Under Training) - survived, but injured. Tiger Moth R4955 Struck off charge 4.7.41 as FACE (Flying Accident Cat.E)

South Weston is a village in Lewknor civil parish, about 4.5 miles south of Thame in Oxfordshire

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft R1000-R9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1980)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/7066: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16756363
3. CWGC: https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2715082/thomas-edmund-wesson/
4. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p828.html
6. http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=R4955
7. Pilot's grave marker: https://www.flickr.com/photos/96555212@N08/48951709457/
8. Biography of Pilot: https://www.warwickwarmemorial.org.uk/wwii-names/wesson-thomas-edmund/
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Weston

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
26-Feb-2022 23:56	Dr. John Smith	Added
28-Feb-2022 09:23	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]