Date:	Monday 30 September 1940
Time:	evening
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk Ic
Owner/operator:	115 Sqn RAF
Registration:	T2549
MSN:	KO-K
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Talge, Bersenbrück, Niedersachsen -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Marham, Norfolk
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Takeoff at 19:38 hrs local time for an operation against Osnabrück in Niedersachsen.

The aircraft was coned by searchlights and probably shot down by the night fighter crew of Oberleutnant Werner Streib & Unteroffizier Theo Lingen of the 2./NJG 1, who were flying a Bf 110 from Vechta airfield.

Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Arthur John Joseph STEEL RAF 42539 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 13 August, 1940) [PoW]
2nd Pilot : Sergeant Leonard George GOLDIE RAFVR 745606 [Killed] - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant James Le Blond Robert WALTER RAFVR 902245 [Killed] - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany
Air Gunner : Sergeant Douglas Eric WESTWOOD RAF 805525 [Killed] - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany
Sergeant Colin DOWSETT RAF 650716 [Missing believed killed] - Runnymede Memorial panel 13
Sergeant Ronald Percy MOGG RAF 744979 [PoW]

Date according to AIR81/3569 is 01-10-1940. Also CWGC had date of death of the fallen crew set on 01-10-1940.

1.Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
2.http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=T2549
3.Google Maps
4.Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
5.AIR81/3569
6.Henk Welting's database (rafcommands.com)
7.Bomber Command Losses (1939-1940) WR Chorley, page 115
8.CWGC

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
24-Sep-2020 14:39	TigerTimon	Added
06-Jun-2024 10:48	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]
16-Aug-2025 09:26	MMR	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]
16-Aug-2025 09:28	MMR	Updated [Narrative, ]