Date:	Monday 9 June 1941
Time:	18:20 LT
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk IC
Owner/operator:	9 Sqn RAF
Registration:	T2620
MSN:	WS-G
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	North Sea off Vlissingen, Zeeland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Honington
Destination airport:	RAF Honington

Narrative:
Mission-Armed Reconnaissance. Took off from RAF Honington at at 1536 hrs. Lost in circumstances similar to R1758. The aircraft was shot down by a Bf 109 of Jagdgeschwader 26 near Vlissingen.
Sgt Mansfield rests in the Canadian War Cemetery at Adegen in Belguim, while at Vlissingen in Holland can be found the grave of Sgt Partington, whose parents lived in Buenos Aires. The rest of those who died are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial:

Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer Douglas Ferguson Lamb DFC RAF 42614 [Killed]
2nd Pilot : Sergeant John Claude Partington RAFVR 1180179 [Killed]
Observer : Flight Sergeant Dennis John Mansfield RAFVR 751041 [Killed]
Sergeant Ronald Seward Bunce RAFVR 906190 [Killed]
Sergeant William Arthur Eccles RAF 638409 [PoW]
Sergeant David Alfred Humphrey RAF 553851 [Killed]

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1046&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
LW claims by Michael Balss
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 63
ORB 9 Sqdn RAF
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
10-Apr-2016 06:29	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
02-Jan-2018 18:06	XindelX	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source, ]
08-Jun-2019 08:09	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative, ]
24-May-2024 14:29	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]