Date:	Saturday 15 March 1941
Time:
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk Ic
Owner/operator:	3 Group Training Flight RAF
Registration:	W5644
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Aircraft missing
Location:	Mediterranean Sea -
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Gibraltar
Destination airport:	Luqa, Malta

Narrative:
Delivery Flight to Egypt. Took off from Gibraltar but was shot down by Oblt Muncheberg of 7/JG26 Northwest of Gozo (Malta). Oblt Mucheberg saw the crew getting into a dinghy but they were never found.

Crew:
391335 Sgt Richard Hugh ALINGTON (RNZAF) - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 63
83740 P/O Robert Henry Pettiplace BLANDY - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 31
745258 Sgt John Geoffrey CRAWFORD - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 41
971685 Sgt Charles GILLESPIE - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 43
939016 Sgt Harold Edward MEASON - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 48
970952 Sgt Kenneth Herbert Aynge VAUGHAN - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 54
Passenger:
06251 G/Capt Dudley D'Herbez HUMPHREYS - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 28

1.Bomber Command Losses In the Middle East and Med. (Volume 1: 1939-1942) David Gunby & Pelham Temple, page 46
2.AIR81/5450
3.https://www.southafricawargraves.org/search/details.php?id=1925
4.CWGC

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