Mitcham Road Cemetery
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Mitcham Road Cemetery
Image: © Peter Trimming Taken: 12 Apr 2020
Lanfranc Air Crash Memorial. 9th August 1961. Thirty four pupils and two teachers of Lanfranc Secondary Modern School, Croydon, were killed when the Viking airliner they were flying in crashed while making the approach to the Sola Airport near Stavanger, Norway; they had been travelling to a camping holiday. The mass grave contains thirty four of the victims, buried together in Croydon Cemetery.
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