Two of the graves belong to Byron Martin and Wilfred Octavius Dawns, who were both overcome by severe illnesses while training at RAF Hunmanby Moor, Filey. It is believed that 19-year-old Martin died of Meningitis on 7 August 1944, and 24-year-old Dawns of pneumonia on 17 January 1945. [2] Both were likely transported to one of the many military hospitals in North Yorkshire before they died, which explains their burials in Stonefall Cemetery, Harrogate.

The other two graves belong to servicemen Vivian Florent and Patrick Constantine Marshall, who perished within a month of each other after separate flying accidents. London born Florent had joined the RAF in 1941 and after two years was promoted to Sergeant Air Gunner.[3] On 8 June 1944, he boarded a Halifax bomber at RAF Pocklington listed as a flight engineer. Shortly after the aircraft had taken off, it ran into difficulties and the plane crashed at Home Farm, Seaton Ross. Sadly, Florent and the rest of the crew perished. He was laid to rest in Pocklington Burial Ground. A month later, Jamaican Patrick Constantine Marshall who trained as an Aircraftsman Second Class at Filey in the summer of 1944 suffered the same fate. Unfortunately, we know very little regarding the circumstances of his death. However, the inscription on his grave suggests that he perished in a flying accident while in East Yorkshire on 21 July 1944. He is buried with the other Jamaican recruits in Harrogate.