Date:	Monday 13 January 1941
Time:	10:39
Type:	Bristol Blenheim Mk IV
Owner/operator:	114 (Hong Kong) Sqn RAF
Registration:	T1858
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	North Sea, 20 km W off Bergen, Noord-Holland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Oulton
Destination airport:

Narrative:
In the last weeks of 1940, a new 1./JG 1 was created in Holland (the old I./JG 1 had been renamed III./JG 27 in July 1940). The first victory of the new Gruppe (then still reduced to only one Staffel) was claimed on 13 January 1941 by Fw. Rudolf Mickel who claimed a Blenheim shot down at 1039 hrs over the sea 20 km west of Bergen.

That day bad weather curtailed air operations by both sides. RAF dispatched only one aircraft to the continent: the Blenheim IV T1858 of 114 Sqn RAF took off at 0855 hrs from Oulton for a reconnaissance of Nordhorn. It did not return and was shot down by Fw Mickel. All three crew were never found and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.

Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer David Lowther-Clarke RAF 42798 [Killed] (Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 07 November, 1939)
Observer : Sergeant Alfred Richard Grindley RAFVR 903403 [Killed]
Crew : Sergeant Norman Oswald Allen RAFVR 751997 [Killed]

https://www.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/13-01-1941-sglo-t0937-bristol-blenheim-mk-iv-t1858-rt/
"Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, vol 2: Aircraft and Crew Losses 1941", by W R Chorley. ISBN 0-904597-87-3
"1941 the turning point. Part 1", by John Foreman, ISBN 1-871187-22-2
"JG 1. L'histoire de la Jagdgeschwader 1 'Oesau'", by Eric Mombeek. ISBN 2-9509485-2-9
https://www.cwgc.org/find/find-war-dead/
http://www.maplandia.com/netherlands/noord-holland/bergen/
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
18-Mar-2016 19:22	Red Dragon	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
26-Mar-2016 19:10	Giggs	Updated [Time, Operator]
06-Jan-2018 12:45	XindelX	Updated [Operator]
18-Jan-2018 16:33	Laurent Rizzotti	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Location, Source, Narrative]
26-Sep-2018 09:00	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
21-Jun-2022 09:56	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]
13-Jan-2024 07:22	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]