Date:	Tuesday 19 August 1941
Time:	02:06
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk IC
Owner/operator:	218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF
Registration:	N2844
MSN:	HA-M
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	IJsselmeer 15 km N of Medemblik, Noord-Holland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Marham
Destination airport:	RAF Marham

Narrative:
Mission : Duisburg. Took off from RAF Marham at 2348 hrs. Shot down by a night-fighter (Fw Siegfried Ney 4./NJG1) and crashed 0206 hrs in the IJaselmeer. Three bodies, those of Sgt Wilson RAAF, Sgt Boswell and Plt Off Pockney, were found and taken for burial in various Dutch Cemeteries. The rest have no known grave.
Crew:-
Pilot : Sergeant Kenneth Charles Shearing RAFVR 758034 Killed
2nd Pilot : Sergeant Roy Gerald Boswell RAF 622252 Killed
Navigator : Sergeant Lothian Julyan George RCAF R/69557 Killed
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Alexander Macgregor Wilson RAAF Aus/400314 Killed
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Sydney Arthur Maguire RAFVR 1378011 Killed
Air Gunner : Pilot Officer Ewart Duncan Pockney RAFVR 76925 : Commission Gazetted Thursday 19 September, 1940) Killed

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1207&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 123.
https://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=N2844
https://aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=N2844&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1270733
personnel file of Sergeant Lothian Julyan George from Ancestry.ca (Archives Canada)
218 Sqn war records from The National Archives UK
https://218squadron.wordpress.com/
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
06-May-2016 15:51	Red Dragon	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
15-Jan-2018 19:16	XindelX	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator]
18-Mar-2020 14:17	TigerTimon	Updated [Location, Phase, Source]
15-Jun-2022 19:03	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]
25-Oct-2023 16:39	tachel	Updated [[Location]]
27-Jan-2024 15:19	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]