Iain Ramsay, James Smith, Alan Stripp, James Lewis, and 6 others

This blue commemorative plaque records: In Memory of P/O Iain Ramsay, Sgt James Smith DFM, F/Sgt Alan Stripp DFM, LAC James Lewis, S/Ldr Kenneth Edwards, F/Lt Francis Wilton, Hero of the Soviet Union Major Sergey Asyamov, [Russian Script] Major Petr Baranov, [Russian Script] Colonel Grigory Pugachev, [Russian Script] and Major Boris Shvetsov, [Russian Script]; Who lost their lives when De Haviland DH95 (Flamingo) R2764 crashed in the field behind Vine House on 30th April 1942; These Russian officers and Air Ministry staff were instrumental in the negotiation of the 1942 Anglo-Soviet Treaty Recorded plaque organisation: Great Ouseburn Parish Council.

Iain Ramsay, James Smith, Alan Stripp, James Lewis, Kenneth Edwards, Francis Wilton, Sergey Asyamov, Petr Baranov, Grigory Pugachev, and Boris Shvetsov were military personnel and officers whose roles in negotiating the 1942 Anglo-Soviet Treaty were crucial for wartime cooperation between Britain and the Soviet Union; they perished together in an air crash on April 30, 1942.