Hooton Park Trust, Ellesmere Port: museum exhibit, helmet & goggles of Sgt H B McGregor (3)
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Hooton Park Trust, Ellesmere Port: museum exhibit, helmet & goggles of Sgt H B McGregor (3)
Image: © Mike Searle Taken: 2 Aug 2018
This is the actual helmet, goggles and oxygen mask worn by Sgt McGregor when he was killed in Spitfire P9451 on 11 Dec 1940. It was recovered along with the wreckage of the cockpit section of his aircraft from near Kimmer Lough in Northumberland in 2000. Sgt McGregor was from 610 (County of Cheshire) Auxiliary Squadron based at RAF Hooton Park. Image
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