ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 15780
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| Date: | Friday 26 July 1940 |
| Time: | night |
| Type: | Handley Page Hampden Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 83 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | L4094 |
| MSN: | OL-R |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Near Fluren, 4 km NW of Wesel, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire |
| RAF Scampton |
Handley Page Hampden Mk.I L4094 (OL-R) of 83 Squadron, RAF Scampton: Lost on combat operations on night of 26/7/1940. Crashed on mission to attack targets along Dortmund-Ems Canal. Aircraft came down Near Fluren, 4 km North West of Wesel, Nordrhein-Westfalen. Three of the four crew on board were killed, one survived to be taken PoW
Crew:
Pilot: Pilot Officer 40767 William Oliver Digby Tweddell DFC (Canadian, aged 21) RAF killed.
Pilot: Sgt 590727 Geoffrey Wyatt Jones (aged 24) RAF killed.
Observer: Sgt 580075 Douglas George John Townsend (aged 23) RAF killed.
W/Op Air gunner: Sgt 551573 P.J. Tointon RAF PoW 197.
All three crew lost were buried in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Sources:
1. Air-Britain: Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-N9999
2. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2046567/tweddell,-william-oliver-digby/
3. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2055932/jones,-geoffrey-wyatt/
4. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2046504/townsend,-douglas-george-john/
5. https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/hampden/23845-L40941940-07-26.html
6. http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2046567
7. https://www.ordinarycrew.co.uk/bomber-command-losses
8. Flight Magazine September 5 1940 page 194: http://www.skynet.ie/~dan/war/flightsa/Flight_AS1940-2.pdf
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 13-Mar-2008 15:18 | JINX | Added |
| 13-Mar-2008 15:37 | JINX | Updated |
| 23-Jun-2008 20:30 | JINX | Updated |
| 23-Jan-2012 04:37 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 08-Jul-2013 05:40 | JINX | Updated [Operator, Location, Phase, Narrative] |
| 11-Jun-2017 13:16 | Uli Elch | Updated [Operator, Location, Source] |
| 11-Jun-2017 13:37 | Anon. | Updated [Source] |
| 30-Jun-2018 20:13 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 11-Nov-2018 12:06 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
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