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Date: | Saturday 25 October 1941 |
Time: | 22:07 |
Type: | Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 125 (Newfoundland) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | T3985 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Park Crescent, Skewen, Neath, South Glamorgan, Wales -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Fairwood Common, Glamorganshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I T3985, 125 (Newfoundland) Squadron RAF: On 25th October 1941 during a night patrol the aircraft hit a barrage balloon cable. Both crew members were able to abandon the aircraft prior to it crashing into the ground at Park Crescent, Skewen, Neath, South Glamorgan. However, the pilots chute did not open in time to save him, and his body was discovered 200 yards north of the crash site
Crew:
Sgt (NZ402170) Clive Alan Gillions DALE (pilot) RNZAF baled out too low and his parachute failed to open and he was killed.
Sgt (NZ40600) John Barron BAYLISS (Air Gunner) RNZAF - successfully baled out, slightly injured in "hard" parachute descent.
Sgt Dale is buried at Killay (St Hillary of Poictiers) Churchyard.
R.I.P.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft T1000-V9999 (James J Haley, Air Britain, 1997)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR81/9850:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16998097 3. 125 Squadron ORB for October 1941: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 27/922/4:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8387464 4. Glamorganshire Police reports for 1939-41. (Glam PRO; DCON/279/7).
5.
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?12863-Defiant-T3985-of-125-Squadron. 6.
http://www.ggat.org.uk/timeline/pdf/Military%20Aircraft%20Crash%20Southeast%20Wales.pdf 7. CWGC:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2717280/dale,-clive-alan-gillions/ 8.
https://aircrewremembered.com/dale-clive-alan.html 9.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25152339/clive-alan_gillions-dale 10.
https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/clive-alan-gillions-dale 11.
http://ciapoldiescorner.blogspot.com/2009/10/events-for-25th-october.html 12.
https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C20012 13.
https://www.doogal.co.uk/ShowMap?postcode=SA10%206SG Revision history:
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