Date:	Tuesday 17 June 1941
Time:	02:32 LT
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk IC
Owner/operator:	103 Sqn RAF
Registration:	N2849
MSN:	PM-?
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Teutenstraat, Hamont-Achel, Limburg -   Belgium
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Newton
Destination airport:	RAF Newton

Narrative:
Mission-Duisburg. Took off from RAF Newton at 2300 hrs. Coned by searchlights and hit by night fighter pilot Leutnant Reinhold Knacke of the 2./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 from Venlo airfield, the Netherlands. It is highly probable that the plane broke apart, as parts of it fell at Soerendonk (NL) and the largest part came down at Hamont (Belgium). The crash site is situated behind the houses in the Teutenstraat, known at the land registry as "De Eickener".

In the cemetery at Hamont five of the six crew members were temporarily buried. At the funeral the townspeople paid tribute to the deceased airmen and laid flowers on the graves. An original photo of the decorated graves is preserved by the local heritage society and history association De Goede Stede Hamont.

Crew:-
Pilot : Squadron Leader Dermot Daly Aloysius Kelly MiD & 2 bars RAF 33207 [Killed]
2nd Pilot : Sergeant John Douglas MacVicar RCAF R/56111 [Killed]
Observer : Flight Sergeant Stephanus Francois Marais RAF 580428 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Leonard Beaumont RAFVR 976102 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant George Houghton RAFVR 906068 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant William Connell RAFVR 1060539 [Killed]

http://www.grevenbroekmuseum.be/new/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=105&lang=en
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1061&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 67.
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
11-Jan-2009 05:02	geert	Updated
17-Jul-2011 12:06	Anon.	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]
25-Apr-2016 18:46	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
15-Oct-2018 14:48	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator, ]
16-Feb-2019 16:45	Cobar	Updated [Embed code, ]
14-Jun-2019 19:44	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative, ]
24-Jul-2019 18:58	TigerTimon	Updated [Location, ]
04-Jun-2024 18:12	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]