ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 53275
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| Date: | Friday 25 July 1941 |
| Time: | 01:05 LT |
| Type: | Handley Page Hampden Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 61 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | AE189 |
| MSN: | QR-G |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Marsdiep off Den Helder, Noord-Holland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF North Luffenham, Rutland |
| RAF North Luffenham, Rutland |
Handley Page Hampden Mk.I AE189 (QR-G) of 61 Squadron, RAF. Lost on combat operations on night of 24-25/7/1941. Target: Kiel, Schleswing-Holstein. Took off from RAF North Luffenham at 23:04 hours on the evening of 24/7/1941.
Shot down by a night-fighter and crashed 01:05 hours on 25/7/1941 into the North Sea off the Marsdiep near the Dutch port of Den Helder, Noord-Holland. (The Marsdiep is a deep tide-race between Den Helder and Texel in the Netherlands, and running southwards between sandbanks at approximate co ordinates 52°59′05″N 4°44′41″E. That gap connects the North Sea and the Waddenzee). All four crew were killed.
Crew
Pilot: Flying Officer. Maurice Parry, RAF (42637, aged 23) - KIA (Gazette of 19th September 1939)
Observer: Pilot Officer George Peter Wise, DFM, RAF (46027, aged 21) - KIA (NCO:581547, Gazette of 25th July 1941).
WOp/Air Gunner: Flight Sgt. Alfred Frederick Hill, RAF (751924) - KIA
Air Gunner: Sgt. Ian Fenton Waugh, RNZAF (401818)
Flt Sgt Hill is buried in Westerschelling General Cemetery, Tereschelling and Sgt Waugh RNZAF lies in Kiel War Cemetery in Kiel. The rest of the crew have no known grave, and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial
Sources:
1. W.R. Chorley: Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 103.
2. http://www.nimh.nl/nl/images/1941%20sec_tcm5-7282.pdf
3. https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1137&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
4. https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/hampden/24997-AE1891941-07-25.html
5. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1803918/parry,-maurice/
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1531927/wise,-george-peter/
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2649163/hill,-alfred-frederick/
8. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2356928/waugh,-ivan-fenton/
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsdiep
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 8 July 1941 | AD937 | 61 Sqn RAF | 3 | between Valkenburg and Meerssen, Limburg | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 02-May-2016 17:03 | Red Dragon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 25-Jul-2018 20:51 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 03-Nov-2018 09:08 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 25-Jul-2019 10:13 | TigerTimon | Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source] |
| 19-Sep-2021 19:02 | Rob Davis | Updated [Narrative] |
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