Date:	Friday 13 June 1941
Time:	00:37
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk IC
Owner/operator:	103 Sqn RAF
Registration:	T2996
MSN:	PM-C
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Zwaagdijk 22a, Zwaagdijk, Noord-Holland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Newton
Destination airport:	RAF Newton

Narrative:
Mission-Osnabrück. Took off from RAF Newton at 23:00 hrs. Over the Netherlands, hit by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Hans Rasper of the 4./NJG 1, who was flying Bf 110 D-0/B G9+BM from Bergen airfield. Plunged down in a ball of fire and exploded in mid-air. Crashed 0037 hrs on land owned by Mr Langendijk, 22A Zwaagdijk Wervershoof (Noord Holland), 10 km W of Enkhuizen.

Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer Robert Stanley Chisholm RAFVR 79509 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 18 June, 1940) [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant John Knox Emslie Horniman RAFVR 759240 [Killed]
Sergeant Albert George Burbridge RAFVR 951997 [Killed]
Flight Sergeant Alan Greensides RAFVR 755086 [Killed]
Pilot Officer Arthur Vernon John Hardcastle RAFVR 89393 (NCO:946713 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 21 January, 1941) [Killed]
Flying Officer William Clifford Taffender RAFVR 82966 (NCO:751218 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 27 August, 1940) [Killed]

Most are buried at Jonkerbos War Cemetery, with one grave in Bergen General Cemetery.

Flight Sergeant Horniman is commemorated on a family grave at Saint Margaret’s Churchyard, Angmering, near Littlehampton in West Sussex, England. See Source 5. below.

More details of the crew can be found by following the links at Source 6.

See also Sources 7 and 8 for additional background information on the crew and the aircraft.

1. https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1055&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
2. Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 65
3. ORB 103 Sqdn RAF
4. Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
5. https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/101809
6. https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/111223
7. https://www.northlincsweb.net/103Sqn/html/robert_s_chisholm_and_crew_103_sqn.html
8. https://www.zzairwar.nl/dossiers/168.html
9. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
11-Apr-2016 18:59	Red Dragon	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
02-Jan-2018 17:40	XindelX	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Source, Narrative, ]
16-Feb-2019 16:54	Cobar	Updated [Embed code, ]
11-Jun-2019 07:06	TigerTimon	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, ]
26-May-2024 12:39	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]