Date:	Thursday 24 October 1940
Time:
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk Ic
Owner/operator:	75 Sqn RAF
Registration:	P9292
MSN:	AA-
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Aircraft missing
Location:	Sea off the coast of Denmark -   Denmark
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Mildenhall
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took of from Mildenhall for a mission over Berlin. Contact was lost and it is believed the plane crashed in the sea off the coast of Denmark.

Crew:
42727 P/O Rex Martyn SANDERSON - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 10
77961 P/O Frederick Bernard CLEAK - Esbjerg (Fourfelt) Cemetery, Denmark
39911 P/O William John FINLAYSON - buried at sea - Runnymede Memorial panel 27 (*)
625697 Sgt Jack GIBBS - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 14
653978 Sgt William Grice HITCHMOUG - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 15
755956 Sgt Reginald William Bryant WHITE - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 20

(*)
According to source 2 (Faldne Allierede Flyvere) the body of P/O William John FINLAYSON was found by a British trawler and subsequently buried at sea.

1.Bomber Command Losses (1939-1940) WR Chorley, page 122
2.Faldne Allierede Flyvere 1939-1945, Odense Universitetsforlag 1995 (Anders Bjørnvad) page 79
3.AIR81/3971
4.CWGC

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