Date:	Friday 2 October 1942
Time:	22:30
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk III
Owner/operator:	419 (Moose) Sqn RCAF
Registration:	BK269
MSN:	VR-C
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Oosterheide heath between Odiliapeel - Oosterens; Noord-Brabant -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Croft
Destination airport:

Narrative:
On October 2nd 1942 the aircraft Wellington BK269 with call sign VR-C crashed 1 km east of Oosterens and a couple of hundred metres south of airfield Volkel NL after being attacked by the night fighter crew of Oberleutnant Hans-Dieter Frank and Unteroffizier Erich Gotter, who had taken off from Venlo airfield in a Bf 110 F-4.
The bomber had taken off at 18:19 hrs local time for an operation against Krefeld in Germany.

Crew:-
Pilot : Warrant Officer Class I Sidney Vernon Stowe RCAF R/87673 [Killed] Uden War Cemetery; grave 4 B 5
2nd Pilot : Flight Sergeant Helfi Sveinn Sveinson RCAF R/107046 [Killed] Uden War Cemetery; grave 4 B 2
Observer : Flying Officer Arthur Bryan Morlidge RCAF J/9762 [Killed] Uden War Cemetery; grave 4 B 6
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Flying Officer Harding James Stuart RCAF J/9289 [Killed] Uden War Cemetery; grave 4 B 4
Air Gunner : Sergeant Norman Nelan RCAF R/79214 [PoW]
Air Gunner : Flight Sergeant Hubert Douglas Price RCAF R/79132 [Killed] Uden War Cemetery; grave 4 B 3

Uden War Cemetery, Netherlands (51.663822 / 5.612422)

One hour earlier that day at 21.31 h. Oberleutnant Hans Dieter Frank shot down the Short Stirling R9167 (Code OJ-N) over Sevenum/Kronenberg. All seven crew members died in the crash.

http://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/item2.php?SGLO=T1862
Neergestorte vliegtuigen in Uden, Studiegroep Luchtoorlog 1939-1945
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database http://robdavistelford.co.uk/webspace/raf_bc

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
29-May-2017 15:04	Piet Snellen	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
29-May-2017 17:08	Anon.	Updated [Embed code, Narrative, ]
02-Oct-2017 20:03	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative, ]
10-Oct-2018 12:24	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Source, Operator, ]
04-Aug-2020 08:25	TigerTimon	Updated [Cn, Location, Source, Narrative, ]
04-Aug-2020 08:27	TigerTimon	Updated [Embed code, ]
11-Apr-2025 06:34	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]