Operation: Training

Date: 21st August 1944 (Monday)

Unit No: 14 Pilot Advanced Flying Unit, 21 Group

Type: Oxford I

Serial: V4082

Code: None

Base: RAF Banff, Banffshire, Scotland

Location: Mains of Paithnick

Pilot: Fg Off. Harold Tudor Haynes 416485 RNZAF Age 24. Killed

REASON FOR LOSS:

Taking off at 14:25 hrs on general flying practice in company with another Oxford from the same unit.

25 minutes later while pulling out of a dummy diving attack on a formation of aircraft over the Mains of Paithnick, both aircraft collided.

Fg Off. James Law 161729 RAFVR the pilot of flying the other Oxford I ED266, also lost his life.

Harold Tudor Haynes worked as a mechanician for P and T departments. Served in the territorial army for 11 months. Enlisted in Levin as a pilot under training on 30th November 1941. With No. 4 Elementary Flying Training School 10th January 1942. With No. 2 Service Flying Training School 8th March 1942. No. 1 Service Flying Training School 13th June 1942. Pilots Wings awarded on the 5th May 1942.

Above: L-R: Rear; Harold Tudor Haynes 416485, A.R Harrison, Neville John Callan 415289, Charles Wallace Beresford, D.G Kennedy, A.L Hickinbotham.
Centre; Hilton Clifford Williams 416219, Robert Frederick Harvey 416483, A.C Beazer, William Francis Irwin 416497, C.W Collins.
Front; Maurice William Bourke 416446, A.R Stephenson, F.C Cook. (Courtesy Air Museum of New Zealand)

Promoted to Sergeant on the 11th July 1942. Embarked for England on the 20th of July 1942. With No. 3 Personnel Reception Centre 2nd September 1942. 11 Pilot Advanced Flying Unit 22nd September 1942, Served in several units as an instructor. Appointed to a commission on the 20th October 1943.

His brother Flt Sgt. Owen Haynes 405742 Age 28, was posted MiA on the 19th August 1942 when his 61 Sqn Lancaster I R5605 failed to return from and Anti-Submarine patrol off Spain. All seven (7) of the crew are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.

Burial details:

Fg Off. Harold Tudor Haynes. Banff Cemetery, 3rd Compt. Sec. D. Grave 15. Born on the 2nd January 1920 in Palmerstone North. Son of Mark Trevithick Haynes (died 9th August 1943 and Ida Tudor Haynes (née Brewer - died 3rd June 1952, age 74). Husband of Nita Lois Haynes, father of one son, Colin Haynes, of Frankton Junction, Hamilton.

Researched Kelvin Youngs (Webmaster) and dedicated to the relatives of this pilot with thanks to the extensive research by Errol Martyn and his publications: “For Your Tomorrow Vols. 1-3”,Auckland Library Heritage Collection, Weekly News of New Zealand, Air Museum of New Zealand, Museum of Transport and Technology, Auckland (Jul 2022). Thanks to Luke Haynes who contacted us in Aug 2023. Reviewed and updated by Aircrew Remembered (Aug 2026).

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