Date:	Monday 22 April 1940
Time:	night
Type:	Handley Page Hampden Mk I
Owner/operator:	44 Sqn RAF
Registration:	L4088
MSN:	KM-T
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Heiligendamm -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:	RAF Waddington

Narrative:
Handley Page Hampden Mk.I L4088 (KM-T) of 44 Squadron, RAF. Lost 22/4/1940 on mine laying sortie in Baltic Sound (Nasturtium Region). Hit by fire from flak-ships near Kiel and crash landed near Heiligendamm, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Rostock, Germany

Crew: All four crew survived - first complete Hampden crew to be captured.

Flt Lt (39509) F.G. Dutton (pilot) RAF PoW No.364.
Sgt J.G. Slowey RAF PoW kept in the Dulag Luft Interogation Centre.
Corporal (623703) William Philip Jeffrey Watson RAF PoW No.13064. Killed by RAF Typhoons strafing column he was marching in 19/04/45 near Gresse, Germany
Corporal (540315) W.R. Davidson RAF PoW No.13110.

1. Air Britain RAF Aircraft L1000 - L9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 23)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/161: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14141940
3. https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/hampden/26102-L40881940-04-22.html
4. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2761375/watson,-william-philip-jeffrey/
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heiligendamm
6. https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/watson-wpj/
7. https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/william-philip-jeffery-watson

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
13-Mar-2008 10:13	JINX	Added
28-Jun-2008 17:11	JINX	Updated
01-Jun-2013 16:23	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative, ]
08-Jul-2013 05:36	JINX	Updated [Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, ]
27-Nov-2014 16:18	Xindel X	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative, ]
29-Sep-2015 19:59	sandman56	Updated [Location, ]
11-Jun-2017 13:00	Uli Elch	Updated [Operator, Location, ]
23-Dec-2017 18:35	Nepa	Updated [Operator, ]
25-Jun-2018 20:21	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
30-Oct-2018 04:22	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator, ]
10-Jun-2019 18:06	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]
16-Apr-2020 18:23	TB	Updated [Location, ]
23-Apr-2022 07:13	JINX	Updated [Operator, Location, Destination airport, ]
05-Jul-2022 10:48	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator, ]