Walcot Air Line

Junkers F.13

The aircraft departed Le Touquet on a taxi flight to Croydon, carrying four passengers and a crew of two. While cruising above Kent, the single engine airplane entered an uncontrolled descent and crashed in a near vertical attitude in a private garden located in Meopham, some five miles south of Gravesend. The aircraft was destroyed and all six occupants were killed. Crew: George Lochart Henderson, pilot Charles d'Urban Shearing, copilot. Passengers: Mr. Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 3rd Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Mrs. Rosemary Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Viscountess Ednam, Mr. Edward Simons Ward, Mrs. Sigrid Loeffler.