Harrogate ( Stonefall ) Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery Harrogate ( Stonefall ) Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission ( CWGC ) burial ground for the dead of World War I and World War II located on the outskirts of Harrogate in North Yorkshire , England . The cemetery grounds are located next to the main municipal cemetery and crematorium for the district . Foundation . This area of Yorkshire had many RAF bases during World War II . In particular , No 6 RCAF Bomber Group had headquarters at Allerton Park in nearby Knaresborough . An area of the municipal cemetery was set aside for use as a war cemetery at the start of the war and received burials , mostly from after July 1943 , mostly airmen , mostly Canadians , until after the end of the war . Burials are from northern airfields and the military wing of the now demolished Harrogate General Hospital in Starbeck . Within the cemetery , there are burials of or memorials to 23 World War I troops . Notable graves . Many of the burials are from aircrews killed in training or on the ground or who died later in the local hospital . Amongst the burials in the cemetery are three ( all Canadians ) of the seven crew of a Lancaster bomber that crashed on Helmsley Moor on the morning of 17 May 1944 . Five burials ( all serving in the RCAF , but two were from the United States ) in adjoining plots are of the crew of Halifax bomber EB203 , which crashed into a railway bridge in Bishop Monkton on 15 April 1944 . Also the Crew of Wellington BK387 , near Oakworth , Yorkshire . On the night of 2 January 1944 , the main force of bomber command was once again out in strength ; that night , 383 Aircraft were on their way to the big city , Berlin . 27 Lancasters were not to return to there bases in England , most were lost in the Berlin area , some seven and half percent of the attacking bombers missing . Eighty two houses were destroyed and thirty six people were killed , Just another night for the crews of bomber command . The Operational Training Unit , home of the O . T . U . was based eight miles north - west of Newark . This was at Ossington , and it was bases like these , flying the Vickers Wellington , that all operational crew passed through on their way to squadron service . At 20 . 00 hours , Wellington BK387 lifted off from the Ossington runway on what should have been just another training flight of four hours duration . Many local people around Oakworth will tell stories of what they saw and heard on that fateful night when the pilot , Flight Sergeant Ernest Glass , brought the aircraft down through low cloud and subsequently crashed into the hillside at Tewitt Hall wood . Six young lives were lost in an instant . The crew of BK387 were all from Canada . If they had completed their training they would have joined one of the 16 Canadian Bomber Squadrons in Yorkshire . By the time the war ended , these squadrons had flown some 40 , 822 sorties , they had lost 814 Aircraft and more than 3 , 500 Aircrew were killed or missing . The total Bomber command losses were a staggering 55 , 000 men . The remains of the aircraft were cleared away and little remains today at the site of the crash except for the burnt and broken trees which tell their own story . The crew were all buried at Stonefall Cemetery , Harrogate , near Leeds , England along with many of their fellow countrymen , all of whom paid the supreme sacrifice . All are buried on section C , row H , graves 11 to 16 . http : / / www . oakworthvillage . com / personal - accounts . html The cause of this crash is unclear . Canadian crewed Wellington BK387 was on a night training exercise when the aircraft descended through cloud and crashed into farmland , 2 January 1944 . One witness account suggests Warrant Officer Glass was trying to land the plane in the fields . This same account quotes the landlord of the nearby Grouse Inn , who says he had gone to his outside toilet and , with the door open ( after all the customers had gone home for the night . . . ) " he sat there frightened out of his skin as he could see the plane heading straight for his loo " . Fortunately for him at least , the Wellington crashed just beyond the pub . Crew Warrant Officer E . I Glass ( Pilot ) Flying Officer J . J McHenry ( Navigator ) Warrant Officer J E Dalling , ( Bomb Aimer ) Warrant Officer J Henfrey ( Wireless Operator ) Sergeant E Savage ( Air Gunner ) Sergeant N W Crawford ( Air Gunner ) All crewmen were killed in the crash . http : / / www . oakworthvillage . com / personal - accounts . html Special memorials . A plaque in the cemetery records the names of 12 servicemen of World War II who were cremated rather than being buried here . A special memorial commemorates six World War I troops whose graves are in local churchyards around Yorkshire and cannot be maintained by the Commission . The actual grave of one of those commemorated , Edgar Audsley , has since been destroyed as part of development works on the site of South Ossett Baptist Burial Ground .