Viking passenger aeroplane, G-AHPM operated by Cunard Eagle Airways, transporting schoolboys from The Archbishop Lanfranc School in Thornton Heath, London, crashed into the mountainside above the farm (Holtaheia).
The 36 passengers were a school class of boys aged 13 to 16 and two masters from Lanfranc Secondary Modern School for Boys.
The school was originally founded in 1931 as a boys' school in Thornton Road, Thornton Heath, near the junction with Mitcham Road and is close to Mitcham Common.
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The Archbishop Lanfranc School is a comprehensive secondary school in the Thornton Heath area of Croydon, south London, named after Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1070 to 1089.
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In addition to these, the cemetery has a memorial to 34 boys and 2 masters from the The Archbishop Lanfranc School, who were killed in an aircraft crash near Stavanger Airport, Sola, in 1961.
Routledge was born in Sidcup, South East London and attended Archbishop Lanfranc School in Thornton Heath.