Date:	Friday 15 November 1940
Time:	night
Type:	Handley Page Hampden Mk I
Owner/operator:	83 Sqn RAF
Registration:	L4057
MSN:	OL-F
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Missing -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:	RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire

Narrative:
Handley Page Hampden Mk.1 L4057 (OL-F) of 83 Squadron, RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. Missing on night of 14-15/11/40 on raid to Berlin. All four crew posted as MIA, presumed KIA

Named "Admiral Imaz Dryazel". (source?)

Crew:
Sgt 74259 Ronald BUCKNELL (aged 24) RAFVR - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 12
Sgt 581290 Patrick Henry McLOUGHLIN (aged 35) RAF - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 17
Sgt 651852 Sidney DALE (aged 20) RAF - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 13
Sgt 550065 Harry Scott HASTE (aged 22) RAF - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 15

Possibly brought down by AAA/Flak or fighters. L4057 (OL-F) was one of two 83 Squadron aircraft lost on this operation on this night - the other being L4051 (OL-M) which came down at Neurippin, Germany.

1. Air-Britain: Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-N9999
2. https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?105164-Handley-Page-Hampden-L4057
3. https://www.backtonormandy.org/component/mtree/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/hampden/23833-L40571940-11-15.html
4. http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/83-sqn-1940-lost-hampden-sergeant.29196/#post-356335
5. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1079650/mcloughlin,-patrick-henry/
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/231740/dale,-sidney/
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1799625/haste,-harry-scott/
8. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
9. Bomber Command Losses (1939-1940) WR Chorley, page 130
10.AIR81/4224

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
12-Mar-2008 04:30	JINX	Added
13-Mar-2008 16:02	JINX	Updated
23-Jan-2012 05:00	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Narrative, ]
03-Jul-2013 08:39	JINX	Updated [Operator, Narrative, ]
08-Jul-2013 05:42	JINX	Updated [Phase, Source, ]
30-Sep-2016 16:06	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Destination airport, ]
23-Dec-2017 16:29	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, ]
26-Mar-2018 21:24	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Location, Country, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
11-Jul-2018 18:03	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Date, Time, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
11-Nov-2018 12:08	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator, ]
14-Nov-2022 07:38	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]
23-Aug-2025 16:29	MMR	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]