Date:	Tuesday 8 July 1941
Time:	01:17 LT
Type:	Handley Page Hampden Mk I
Owner/operator:	61 Sqn RAF
Registration:	AD937
MSN:	QR-G
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	between Valkenburg and Meerssen, Limburg -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Hemswell, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:	RAF Hemswell, Lincolnshire

Narrative:
Handley Page Hampden Mk.I AD937 (QR-G) of 61 Squadron, RAF. Lost on combat operations on night of 7-8/7/1941. Target: Monchengladbach. Took off from RAF Hemswell at 23:00 hours on the evening of 7/7/1941. Shot down by a night-fighter (Oberleutnant Reinhold Knacke of the 2./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 from Venlo airfield) and crashed 01:17 hours on 8/7/1941 at Houthem-Meersen (Limburg), 6 km North East of Maastricht, Holland. (At approximate Coordinates 50°52'N, 5°48'E). Of the crew of four, three were killed, one survived (albeit injured) to be captured and taken as POW

Crew:
Pilot: Pilot Officer J.G.N. Braithwaite RAF (87058) - Survived Injured, captured, taken as POW (NCO:937302 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 19 November, 1940)
Co-Pilot: Sgt. Glyndwr Owens RAF (754046, aged 26)
WOp/Air Gunner: Flight Sgt. Raymond Wordsworth RAF (969973, aged 27)
Air Gunner: Sgt.Joseph Frank Walton RAF (908698, aged 25)

Those who died are buried in the Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Gelderland, Netherlands

1. W.R. Chorley: Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 85.
2. http://www.nimh.nl/nl/images/1941%20sec_tcm5-7282.pdf
3. https://studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/07-08-07-1941-sglo-t1094-handley-page-hampden-mk-i-ad937-qr/
4. https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/hampden/25013-AD9371941-07-08.html
5. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthem_(Nederland)
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2646672/owens,-glyndwr/
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2647159/wordsworth,-raymond/
8. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2647071/walton,-joseph-frank/
9. Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
10. Google Maps
11. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
01-May-2016 18:07	Red Dragon	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
24-Jul-2018 22:42	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
03-Nov-2018 09:08	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
08-Jul-2019 11:08	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative]
22-Jun-2022 01:34	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]
07-Jul-2023 05:56	Rob Davis	Updated [[Location]]