Date:	Saturday 23 November 1940
Time:	18:40 LT
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk Ic
Owner/operator:	214 (Federated Malay States) Sqn RAF
Registration:	T2471
MSN:	BU-
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Aircraft missing
Location:	North Sea, prob NW of Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Stradishall
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Probably hit by two Ju 88C night fighters from Gilze-Rijen airfield, piloted by Hauptmann Karl Theodor Hülshoff of the 3./NJG 2 and by Feldwebel Heinz Strüning of the 1./NJG 2.

Target: Berlin
Takeoff time: 17:00

Crew:
742972 Sgt Stanley Charles CHESTER - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 12
84012 P/O Edward Robert Matheson PEARS - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 9
653306 Sgt Robert Charles BISHOP - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 12
581316 Sgt Harold Wignell BROOK - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 12
749403 Sgt Alfred HYAM - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 15
906563 Sgt Albert Edward TAYLOR - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 20

1.Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
2.http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=T2471
3.Bomber Command Losses (1939-1940) WR Chorley, page 133
4.AIR81/4318
5.CWGC

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
26-Nov-2018 08:24	TigerTimon	Added
26-Nov-2018 08:25	TigerTimon	Updated [Source, ]
27-Nov-2018 19:34	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, ]
23-Mar-2021 17:01	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator, ]
18-Jun-2022 04:28	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, ]
18-Jun-2022 05:13	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, ]
24-Aug-2025 09:12	MMR	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]