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Stephen Norris

Sisters lay plaque on Dumfries and Galloway hill where father almost died in World War Two plane crash

Two sisters have placed a plaque on Cairnsmore of Fleet summit – 81 years to the day their father almost died in a wartime plane crash.

Jennifer Crompton and Susan Haddock laid the little memento at the granite memorial commemorating all the airmen who died on the mountain.

Their dad Ted Hirst was radio operator on an Avro Anson when it hit the eastern face of the hill on April 17, 1942.

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