ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 51626
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| Date: | Wednesday 14 July 1943 |
| Time: | 02:05 |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk V |
| Owner/operator: | 428 (Ghost) Sqn RCAF |
| Registration: | DK257 |
| MSN: | NA-Q |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | 1 km north of Genderen, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Middleton St George, County Durham, England |
| RAF Middleton St George, County Durham, England |
Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Richard Launer of the 10./NJG 4 (detached to 3./NJG 1), flying a Bf 110 from Venlo airfield.
Takeoff time: 23:45
Crew:
Pilot F/Lt. D.S. Morgan J/8213 RCAF Survived POW
Flight engineer Sgt. D. Brown 1582632 RAF Survived POW
Navigator F/O. F.H. Ditchburn J/11226 RCAF Survived POW
Bomb aimer Sgt. J.P. O'Leary R/114680 RCAF Survived Evader
Wo ag P/O. B.L. Gillis J/18039 RCAF Survived POW
Air gunner Sgt. T.H. Pritchard 1233079 RAF Runnymede Memorial 162
Air gunner Sgt. M. Edwards 1384142 RAF Runnymede Memorial 148
Sergeant Montague Edwards is remembered on a family grave in the New Churchyard at Horley, Surrey. Please see Imperial War Museums/War Memorial link at 2 below.
The link to Sergeant Edwards' CWGC details are at 3. below.
He is also named on the Showmen’s War Memorial at the National Arboretum in Staffordshire, England. See source 4 for more information.
Sources:
1. https://www.verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2660&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
2. https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/95953
3. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/232810/montague-edwards
4. https://www.militaryimages.net/media/showmens-memorial.75767/
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 23 September 1943 | DK271 | 428 (Ghost) Sqn RCAF | 4 | Geinsheim am Rhein (next to the village townshall), Trebur, Hessen |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 19-Jul-2018 09:59 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 14-Oct-2018 15:45 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 04-Nov-2022 06:51 | Richard | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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