Date:	Tuesday 19 May 1942
Time:	23:51
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk III
Owner/operator:	156 Sqn RAF
Registration:	X3671
MSN:	GT-
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Hargnies, Ardennes -   France
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Alconbury
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Operation - Mannheim, Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Hubert Rauh of the 7./NJG 4, who was flying a Bf 110 from Juvincourt airfield in the Aisne département.

Crew:-
Pilot : Squadron Leader Thomas Campbell McGillivray DFC RAF 41858 [Killed]
2nd Pilot : Flight Sergeant Donald Mathieson RCAF R/85609 [Killed]
Observer : Pilot Officer Denis Hellyer RAFVR 104573 (NCO:1203564 : Commission Gazetted Friday 19 September, 1941) [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Pilot Officer Kenneth Vincent Whelan RAFVR 129281 (NCO:755308 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 22 September, 1942) [Killed]
Air Gunner : Sergeant Charles Corbett Stevens RAFVR 946087 [Killed]
Air Gunner : Pilot Officer Edward Francis Valentine RAFVR 120171 (NCO:759271 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 28 April, 1942) [Killed]

All lie at the Hargnies Communal Cemetery, Ardennes, France (50.021208 / 4.789824)

France-Crashes 39-45.
CWGC
Bomber Command Losses 1942
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
Google Maps
http://ww2.dk/Airfields%20-%20France.pdf
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
29-Dec-2017 23:33	Red Dragon	Added
06-Nov-2018 21:10	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Phase, Operator, ]
20-Apr-2020 12:58	TigerTimon	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Country, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
20-Apr-2020 13:01	TigerTimon	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]
30-Jun-2022 05:11	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, ]
15-May-2024 09:30	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]