Date:	Saturday 17 June 1944
Time:	01:10 LT
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:	550 Sqn RAF
Registration:	LM134
MSN:	BQ-H
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Achterberg, Rhenen, Utrecht -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF North Killingholme
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF North Killingholme at 23:10 hrs for a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Sterkrade/Holten in Germany.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Hauptmann Heinz Strüning & Oberleutnant Fritz-Konrad Apel of the 3./NJG 1, who had taken off from Venlo airfield in Heinkel He 219 A-0 G9+CL; crashed between Achterberg and Veenendaal> five are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, and include Fg Off RCAF who came from Buenos Aires in Argentina, while three are buried in Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) General Cemetery:
Crew
Pilot: J/24170 Fg Off Donald Fullerton Neilson RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 247.
2nd Pilot: J/86549 Plt Off John Kay Murray RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 252.
Flight Engineer: 909926 Sgt Joseph Edward Legg - Runnymede Memorial Panel 233.
Navigator: J/23259 Fg Off Harold Beverly Brett RCAF - Amersfoort (Old Leusden) General Cemetery Plot 13 Row 9 Joint Grave 190.
Bomb Aimer: NZ/39061 Flt Lt Alexander Donovan McConnell DFC RNZAF - Amersfoort (Old Leusden) General Cemetery Plot 13 Row 1 Grave 1.
Wireless Operator: 1395217 Sgt Arthur Thomas Paget - Runnymede Memorial Panel 235.
Mid Upper Gunner: 1894355 Sgt Ernest William Webb - Amersfoort (Old Leusden) General Cemetery Plot 13 Row 9 Joint Grave 190.
Rear Gunner: 591199 Sgt James Morris McKay - Runnymede Memorial Panel 233.

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
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- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991

Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 287.
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Other occurrences involving this aircraft

28 May 1944	JA712	550 Sqn RAF	5	Rebecq-Rognon, Roosbeek, Walloon Brabant		w/o
23 March 1945	PD320	550 Sqn RAF	7	Between Bochum and Dortmund		w/o

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