Fred Meads

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Reference WMO/304424

Address:

St James' Church

Church Street

Skillington

Lincolnshire

NG33 5HQ

England

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Status: Damaged
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Painted
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: British Empire Medal awarded to Fred Mead in 1946 for his actions taken removing four injured airmen from a crashed fully loaded American Bomber in 1945. Unfortunately the medal was stolen in 2014.
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Fred MEADS, Ironstone Labourer, Skillington, Nr. Grantham. An aircraft, carrying a crew of nine and fully laden with bombs, crashed in a field. Five members of the crew were thrown clear in the crash but the other four were trapped inside the wreckage. Baker and Meads hurried to the scene of the crash and Baker forced his way through a hole in the aircraft. He was followed by Meads and they found one of the airmen with two bombs lying across his body and another airman pinned down by a bomb across the lower part of his body. They removed the bombs and, with help, removed the injured men and carried them to safety.

Fred Meads

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