Date:	Wednesday 19 July 1944
Time:	01:45 claim
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	467 Sqn RAAF
Registration:	PB234
MSN:	PO-C
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Brabant-le-Roi, Meuse département -   France
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Waddington
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Waddington at 23:01 to destroy a railway junction at Revigny-sur-Ornain.
On its bombing run shot down by the night fighter crew of Oblt. Drünkler, Lt. Kulke (BF) & Uffz. Färber (BM/BS) of the 1./NJG 5 based at Saint-Dizier, flying in Bf 110 G-4 C9+FH; crashing in a field near Brabant-le-Roi (Meuse), a mere 2 km N of Revigny-sur-Ornain.

Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer David Beharrie RAAF Aus/418334 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant William G Johnson RAF 524728 [Evaded]
Navigator : Sergeant Eric Evan Brownhall RAF 1601501 [PoW]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant John T Brown RAF 1397192 [Evaded]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Flight Sergeant Keith Jacob Schott RAAF Aus/419594 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Flight Sergeant Frank Raymond Rogers RAAF Aus/430298 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant F K White RAAF Aus/437607 [Evaded]

The three casualties lie at the Brabant-Le-Roi Churchyard, France (48.981875 / 4.981875).

Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 337.
http://www.raafdb.com/view_aircraft.asp?id=1297
http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=660
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database http://robdavistelford.co.uk/webspace/raf_bc

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
25-Aug-2013 21:39	JINX	Added
15-Dec-2014 09:32	Quentin	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Narrative, ]
22-Jun-2016 20:57	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
23-Oct-2018 20:03	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator, ]
21-Sep-2019 16:56	Anon.	Updated [Narrative, ]
07-Jun-2021 17:09	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative, ]
22-Apr-2025 06:37	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]