Date:	Tuesday 2 July 1940
Time:	01:37 LT
Type:	Handley Page Hampden Mk I
Owner/operator:	83 Sqn RAF
Registration:	P1171
MSN:	OL-P
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	shore of Schwentine Estuary, Kiel Dockyard, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:	RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire

Narrative:
Handley Page Hampden Mk.I P1171 (OL-P) of 83 Squadron, RAF Scampron. Lost on combat operations on night of 2/7/1940, when Shot down by flak (1 Marine Flak Regiment) during night attack on the enemy battleship "Scharnhorst" in Kiel Dockyard. Aircraft came down in the vicinity of Kiel Dockyard, according to some sources in the Schwentine Estuary. All four crew were killed when their aircraft came down on these mudflats close to the harbour installations they were attacking:

Pilot Officer Douglas Redmayne (Pilot, Service Number 41206)
Sgt. Cyril Lee (Service Number 566470)
Sgt. Owen Sandford Gander (Wireless Op/Air Gunner, Service Number 552107)
Sgt. George Elliot Little (Air Gunner, Service Number 547515, aged 30)

All four crew were buried in Kiel War Cemetary

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft P1000-P9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 5)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/1002: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502841
3. Luftfahrt-Archäologie - Fliegerschicksale in Schleswig-Holstein By Nils Hempel (German text)
4. http://aircrewremembered.com/redmayne-douglas.html
5. https://www.backtonormandy.org/component/mtree/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/hampden/23882-P11711940-07-02.html
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2356764/redmayne,-douglas/
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2356573/lee,-cyril/
8. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1807347/smith,-albert-george/
9. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2356585/little,-george-elliott/
10. Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
09-Jul-2013 05:16	JINX	Added
11-Jun-2017 13:12	Uli Elch	Updated [Operator, Location]
23-Dec-2017 18:39	Nepa	Updated [Operator]
29-Jun-2018 21:24	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
11-Nov-2018 12:05	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator]
01-Jul-2019 07:56	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source]
04-Oct-2019 18:33	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Other fatalities, Destination airport, Source]