Surrey

Captain W.G.R. Hinchcliffe, together with Elsie Mackay, daughter of Lord Inchcape of the P & 0 shipping empire, set out ori’13 March 1928 to fly across the Atlantic to make the first east to West transatlantic flight. They were lost during the flight, presumed to have crashed somewhere near the Azores.

Emilie Hinchcliffe, the captain’s wife, was at home with her children in mid-July 1928 when she was awakened one night by the sound of heavy footsteps moving along the hall outside her bedroom door. She assumed it was some member of the Sinclair family who were staying with her at the time but in the morning it was they who asked if she had been walking around the house during the night.

Emilie visited medium Eileen Garrett who claimed to pass on messages from her now dead husband. During one conversation Emilie asked, through the medium, whether or not Hinchcljffe had been in the house. Hinchcliffe confirmed that he had been in the house and had nearly touched a red travelling clock by his wife’s bed but had been afraid of frightening her. Emilie asked Eileen about the morning when she had heard the footfalls. Eileen confirmed that it had been at four o’clock in the morning and that Emilie’s husband had wanted to go through the motions of how he had prepared for a morning flight as he used to do in the summer, to give her the impression of his being there in a familiar way.

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