ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 229512
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| Date: | Tuesday 18 June 1940 |
| Time: | 23:35 |
| Type: |  Armstrong Whitworth Whitley B Mk V |
| Owner/operator: | 58 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | N1460 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Neukirchen-Vluyn, 10 km NNW of Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire |
| RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire |
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley B.Mk.V N1460 (GE-R) 58 Sqaudron, RAF: Written off (destroyed) when lost (Failed To Return) from combat operations over Germany. All five crew killed. According to the official Air Ministry file into the incident (File AIR 81/654): "Whitley N1460 crashed at Neukirchen near Dortmund, Germany on 18/19 June 1940. Sergeant L Whittle, Sergeant C F Mackay, Sergeant M L Dent, Pilot Officer C N Buist and Flying Officer J T MacInnes: report of deaths".
Airborne at 21:15 hours on 18 June 1940 from RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire. Target: Shipping at Castrop-Rauxel. W/T signals reporting shipping had been sighted were received at 23:35 hours, after which the bomber crashed at Neukirchen-Vluyn, 10 km North-North West of Krefeld, Germany. As stated above, there were no survivors among the five crew.
Crew of Whitley N1460:
Flying Officer (Pilot) John Thomas MacInnes, RAF 37753, age 29, killed in action 19/06/1940
Pilot Officer (Pilot) Clement Neville Buist, RAF 42690 (Australian), age 20, killed in action 19/06/1940
Sergeant (Observer) Malcolm Llewellyn Dent, RAF 524057, age 23, killed in action 19/06/1940
Sergeant (Wireless Op./Air Gunner) Leonard Whittle, RAF 533685, killed in action 19/06/1940
Sergeant (Wireless Op./Air Gunner) Cornelius Francis Mckay, RAF 549190, age 23, killed in action 19/06/1940
All five crew fatalities were buried at the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. The reported crash location of Neukirchen-Vluyn is a town in the district of Wesel, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately 5 km west of Moers, and 15 km north of Krefeld, at approximate Coordinates: 51°26′30″N 6°33′30″E
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft N1000-N9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 8)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/954: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502405
3. http://www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk/aircraft/yorkshire/york40/n1460.html
4. http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/58_squadron.html#181906
5. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2040010/macinnes,-john-thomson/
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2037297/buist,-clement-neville/
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2036148/dent,-malcolm-llewellyn/
8. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2046901/whittle,-leonard/
9. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2040026/mckay,-cornelius-francis/
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neukirchen-Vluyn
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 30-Sep-2019 17:26 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 02-Oct-2019 09:23 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator] |
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