ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 201255
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Date: | Monday 9 March 1942 |
Time: | 23:00 |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R9450 |
MSN: | TL-K |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
Location: | 30 miles off Mablethrope in the North Sea -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Linton-on-Ouse (takeoff at 19:16 hrs local time) |
Destination airport: | operation - Essen, Germany |
Narrative:Aircraft crashed 30 miles off Mablethrope in the North Sea. All the crew are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Sergeant Conrad Charles William Ganly RAFVR 1174904 [Killed] Runnymede Memorial Panel 74
Flight Engineer : Pilot Officer Peter Vincent Barthel RAF 46708 (NCO:655076 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 21 October, 1941) [Killed] Runnymede Memorial Panel 68.
Navigator : Sergeant Alfred Thomas Bennett RAF 546151 [Killed] Runnymede Memorial Panel 78.
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Cyril Edmund Johnson RAFVR 1164465 [Killed] Runnymede Memorial Panel 87.
Wireless Operator : Sergeant George Cartwright RAFVR 1304031 [Killed] Runnymede Memorial Panel 79.
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Russell James Gibson Jones RAFVR 1169608 [Killed] Runnymede Memorial Panel 87.
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Ronald Morley Mules RAF 647415 [Killed] Runnymede Memorial Panel 90
Sources:
CWGC
Bomber Command Losses 1942
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=R9450&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
28 April 1942 |
W1020 |
35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
6 |
Near Trondheim |
|
w/o |
14 July 1943 |
HR819 |
35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
6 |
along the Geldrische Straße, Nettetal, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
13-Nov-2017 19:43 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
26-Oct-2018 18:34 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport] |
25-May-2021 18:56 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source] |
09-Mar-2024 13:49 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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