Date:	Wednesday 15 May 1940
Time:	11:30 LT
Type:	Hawker Hurricane Mk I
Owner/operator:	504 (County of Nottingham) Sqn RAF
Registration:	L1943
MSN:	TM-G
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near St. Hilaire-le-Grand, Marne department -   France
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Vitry-en-Artois, France
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Hurricane L1943 (TM-G) of 504 (County of Nottingham) Squadron, RAF: written off (destroyed) in air to air combat near St. Hilaire-le-Grand, Marne department in north-eastern France. Reportedly shot down by a Bf 110 of ZG 76.

According to the official Air Ministry file on the incident (File AIR 81/423): "Hurricane L1943 failed to return from an operational flight, 15 May 1940. Pilot Officer S A C Sibley: missing presumed dead"

Crew of Hurricane L1943
Pilot Officer Samuel Anthony Compton Sibley, RAF (Pilot) - killed in action 15-05-1940. Body of pilot not found/not recovered

As no trace of the pilot or the aircraft was ever found, he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial

NOTE: Several unofficial published sources list Hurricane L1943 as shot down 19 May 1940 (four days later) when with 1 Squadron RAF, and piloted by Flying Officer Paul Henry Mills Richey. However, the Hurricane involved in that incident was P2805 (which see)

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-L9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1978)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/423: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502094
3. Norman L.R. Franks, Fighter Command Losses, Vol 1, 1939-1941, Second edition, Midland, 2008
4. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1807122/sibley,-samuel-anthony-compton/
5. http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=707
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand
7. http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Sussex/Westmeston.html

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
06-Mar-2008 08:23	JINX	Added
04-Jan-2012 12:30	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Phase]
26-Feb-2013 21:23	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Date, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Source, Narrative]
09-Jul-2013 01:33	JINX	Updated [Operator, Source]
01-May-2015 14:21	Quentin	Updated [Operator]
18-Jul-2019 22:02	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Location, Source, Narrative]
23-Jul-2019 00:07	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Registration, Source, Narrative]
23-Jul-2019 00:28	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Date, Time, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative]
23-Jul-2019 09:34	stehlik49	Updated [Operator]
23-Jul-2019 20:43	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative]