RELATIVES of an RAF airman who died with five colleagues in a wartime air accident in the Preseli Hills visited the crash site on the 70th anniversary.
Brian Strawbridge and his son Andrew - nephew and great-nephew of Flight Engineer Raymond Sellors - trekked up the hillside to visit the memorial placed there 30 years ago.
Raymond, aged 21, was part of the crew of a four-engined Liberator bomber of Coastal Command which crashed just feet below the hill summit on September 19th 1944. There were three survivors of the nine crew.
The 70th anniversary commemoration was arranged by the Pembrokeshire Aviation Group which was formed in 1984 to remember the crew of Liberator EV881, of 547 Squadron, RAF.
The crash location is marked with a brass plaque. Here prayers were read by Brian Strawbridge, by Aviation Group founder member Malcolm Cullen and by current chairman Graham Clarkson. Messages were received from Mrs Lily Allin, sister of Raymond Sellors, and relatives of other members of the crew.
Later in the day Malcolm Cullen visited City Road Cemetery, Haverfordwest, to lay Poppy Crosses on the graves of four of the airmen - two Canadians and two RAF.
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