1918 aircraft crash near Wynols Hill, Coleford History book. (General)

by Daffodil , Gloucestershire, Saturday, March 14, 2015, 19:08 (3542 days ago) @ Jefff

Many thanks for your help and enthusiastic research. Great minds etc....

Yesterday, I visited Cinderford library and borrowed the book. The following extract solves the mystery for me, but might send you off on hours more enthusiast research.

'...... .Towards the foot of Gloucester Road stood Jewell's Cycle shop (shareholders in it included Sydney Hone, and Frank Joynes - earlier an instructor in the Royal Flying Corps, and who, incidentally, on 13 November 1918 crashed on take-off a light DH 9 plane (Pl. 35b), in a field north of Wynols Hill House after visiting there his father-in-law, Amos Brown). '

Hart, Cyril - Coleford: The History of a West Gloucestershire Forest Town, 1983. Chpt 14, pp, 399.

I have copied (Pl.35b) which has be acknowledged to Michael Rees in the book, for my personal use, but as the book is copyright I'm unsure about uploading it to this site. Please advise about this.

On the same page as referenced above is some further information about Sgt. J. E. Bartlett.

'The local motor cycle speed trials, held during the late 1910s and early 1920s up the Long Hill (between Mireystock and Worrall Hill) and up the Speech House Hill, attracted many enthusiastic riders from a wide area. Reg Bartlett of Coleford was always a keen competitor. (He was the son of Police Sergeant Bartlett whose wife and daughter Maudie ran a small general stores at the junction of the roads at High Nash.)'

Incidentally, Amos Brown is a 2nd great-great uncle of my husband. I first came across this story in relation to Amos Ellis (a nephew of Amos Brown), but the information I had did not make sense to me.

As a footnote to the above aeroplane crash, my husband remembers, when he was a little boy his grandfather (Tom Burford) telling him that a "Mr Joynes" had or flew an aeroplane named "Wandering Jew". Whether or not this story is about the Frank Henry Joynes of the crash or his son Frank John Joynes is unknown, or if his grandfather was just telling his little grandson a "story" - my husband had no idea that there might be a family connection until I started digging and he remembered this tale.