ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 138148
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| Date: | Saturday 27 March 1943 |
| Time: | 21:38 |
| Type: |  Short Stirling Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 7 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | BF317 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Melchiorshausen, Weyhe, Niedersachsen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire |
Hit by heavy Flak units en route to Berlin.
Details of Death: Martin Lord was piloting a No. 7 Squadron PFF Short Stirling I (call sign: MG-X) on a raid on Berlin, Germany (a raid made by 396 aircraft, of which 10 were lost) on the night of Saturday the 27th March 1943.
His aircraft took off at 19:40hrs and was brought down by flak over Germany, crashing at Melchiorshausen -Angelse, 10km south of Bremen, at 21:38hrs. All onboard were killed.
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Martin Lord RNZAF NZ/413096 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Leonard Nash RAFVR 979904 [Killed]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant Daniel Wellington RNZAF NZ/405459 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Pilot Officer Thomas Henry Brown RAF 131998 (NCO:1534032 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 02 February, 1943) [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Norman Young RAFVR 1265860 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Robert McKerrell RAFVR 1303883 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Jack Russell Oliver RAFVR 1312946 [Killed]
Buried at: The seven crew members were all killed and were at first buried at the Russian POW cemetery at Vechta, about 50km SW of Bremen, but later re-interred to Sage, 24kms south of Oldenburg. The Bomber the bomber shatters into pieces. Some parts come down to a near standing house.It was badly damaged. The Crash site were examined 2016 by the german crash site historian Volker Urbansky.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
Air Britain: RAF Aircraft BA100 - BZ999, published 2006
v.urbansky@t-online.de
Crew: http://www.156squadron.com/display_newpff_roll.asp?ID=7
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 24-Aug-2011 12:21 | Uli Elch | Added |
| 22-Mar-2016 17:39 | Anon. | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Mar-2018 17:12 | TigerTimon | Updated [Date, Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Mar-2018 17:13 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
| 26-Mar-2018 18:12 | TigerTimon | Updated [Location] |
| 03-Nov-2018 14:32 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
| 17-May-2021 10:09 | TigerTimon | Updated [Location, Source] |
| 27-Mar-2024 08:54 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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