Rushden Airman Killed - Motor Cycling Accident Near Camp

Formerly an enthusiastic member of the Rushden Query Motor Club, L.A.C. Harry Frederick William Patenall, R.A.F., was fatally injured while motor cycling near Wendover on Tuesday night. He had been out for the evening and was returning to Halton Camp at about 10 o’clock when, it is believed, he came into collision with some pedestrians.

Thrown from his machine, he received a fractured skull and was taken to a hospital at the camp. An hour later it was decided to transfer him to another hospital at Oxford, but he died in the ambulance before reaching hospital. An inquest will be held at Wendover on Saturday.

Aged 26, L.A.C. Patenall was the eldest of eleven children of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Patenall, or 2, Oval-road, Rushden, having two brothers and eight sisters. Just over twelve months ago he married Miss Jessie Ager, of Irthlingborough, who is now residing at 43a High-street, Irthlingborough.