Date:	Tuesday 1 July 1941
Time:
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk Ic
Owner/operator:	OADU RAF
Registration:	Z8730
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Missing - Mediterranean Sea -   Mediterranean Sea
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Luqa, Malta
Destination airport:	RAF ???? Egypt

Narrative:
Wellington Z8730: Took off for a Ferry flight from Malta to Egypt. 01/07/1941
The aircraft left Malta but did not arrive at its destination. All seven crew members are MIA.
Crew:
1164555 Sgt James Walford HAMBOROUGH - missing believed killed - Malta Memorial Panel 1 Column 2, Malta.
400190 Sgt Sydney Thomas FLOWERS (RAAF) - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial Panel 62, United Kingdom.
R/65791 Sgt James Edward JAMIESON (RCAF) - missing believed killed - Malta Memorial Panel 2 Column 2, Malta.
627885 F/Sgt Ronald Rolfe JOWETT - missing believed killed - Malta Memorial Panel 1 Column 2, Malta.
R/56162 Sgt Arthur Joseph LASSNER (RCAF) - missing believed killed - Malta Memorial Panel 2 Column 2, Malta.
1052300 Sgt Arthur NEWBOULD - killed - El Alamein War Cemetery, IV G32, Egypt.
966882 F/Sgt Hay George SIMPSON - missing believed killed - Malta Memorial Panel 1 Column 2, Malta.

1.https://www.aviationinmalta.com/MilitaryAviation/AccidentsMilitary/19401949
2.http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=Z8730
3.Bomber Command Losses In the Middle East and Med. (Volume 1: 1939-1942) David Gunby & Pelham Temple, page 71
4.CWGC

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
04-May-2023 20:51	Nepa	Updated
05-Oct-2025 07:16	MMR	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]