Fresh crosses have been laid at the graves of two men who lost their life in a fatal plane crash at the start of the Second World War.
On September 3, 1939, a RAF Westland Wallace biplane crashed at Bruntwood Tap, part of the Bennachie range of hills.
The biplane had been on its way from the Air Observers School at RAF Wigton to an airfield in Easter Ross only to plummet to the ground in heavy mist.
Air-gunner Alexander Stewart, 24, from Paisley and Canadian pilot Ellard Cummings, 23, died.
Ahead of this week’s anniversary of the 1939 fatal air crash, a trustee from the Bailies of Bennachie – a group set up to protect and promote the hills – has visited the graves of the two airmen.
Dan Montgomery went to Paisley to find Mr Stewart’s grave and also visited the grave of Mr Cummings in Grove Cemetery in Aberdeen.
He laid small crosses bearing poppies at both sites to remember the pilots – who died just hours after the declaration of war with Germany.
A granite memorial, which incorporates pieces of wreckage from the crash, was reconstructed by the Bailies in 2012 and wreckage from the 1939 incident, and a more recent 1952 crash, can still be seen on the hillside.
The Bailies have requested that people “not to remove any items as a mark of respect to the men who lost their lives.”
