At 15:20 on 5 September 1941, two Mark 1 spitfires collided over Edinburgh. Both aircraft crashed and one of them (X4560), piloted by Arthur Wescome Searle, from Rhodesia, dived into the garden of RBGE’s then curator, Roland Edgar Cooper.
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