A MEMORIAL has been unveiled to mark the 80th anniversary of the death of a Belgian fighter pilot who crash-landed a Spitfire near Stirling during the Second World War.
Members of Henri Jeanne Paul Delabastita’s family flew over from Belgium for a special ceremony. He died when he crashed near the North Third reservoir on January 23, 1943, on return to RAF Balado Bridge, near Kinross, after a training exercise.
It is believed his oxygen feed iced up while the plane was flying at a high altitude.
