Date:	Monday 24 June 1940
Time:	13:30 LT
Type:	Bristol Blenheim Mk IV
Owner/operator:	254 Sqn RAF
Registration:	R3826
MSN:	QY-Q
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	North Sea, West of Stavanger -   Norway
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Sumburgh, Shetland Islands
Destination airport:	RAF Sumburgh, Shetland Islands

Narrative:
Bristol Blenheim Mk.IV R3826 (QY-Q) 254 Squadron, RAF: Written off (destroyed) when lost (Failed To Return) from combat operations over Norway. All three crew killed. Accoarding to the official Air Ministry File into the incident (File AIR 81/986): "Blenheim R3826 failed to return from an operational flight in the vicinity of Stavanger off the coast of Norway, 24 June 1940. Sergeant H G Hughes, Sergeant S Longstaff and Sergeant J F Borrows: missing presumed dead"

Airborne from RAF Sumburgh, Shetland Islands. Target: Sola Airfield, Stavanger, Norway. Blenheim R3826 reportedly successfully attacked and bombed the target. Shot down west of Stavanger by Ofw Jakob Arnoldy of 4./JG77 at 13.30 hours, and crashed into the sea. No survivors among the crew of three

Crew of R3826:
Sergeant (Pilot) Hugh Glanvor. Hughes, RAF 580302, age 28, posted 24/06/1940, as missing, presumed killed in action
Sergeant (Observer) James F. Borrows, RAF 624811, age 19, posted 24/06/1940, as missing, presumed killed in action
Sergeant (Wireless Op./Air Gunner) Stanley Longstaff, RAFVR 755125, age 20, posted 24/06/1940, as missing, presumed killed in action

As no trace of Blenheim R3826 or its crew of three was ever found, they are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft R1000-R9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 24)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/986: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502437
3. Ross McNeill, Coastal Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 1 (1939-1941), Midland publishing, 2003
4. http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/254_squadron.html#1506
5. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1800682/hughes,-hugh-glanvor/
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1800682/hughes,-hugh-glanvor/
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1078909/longstaff,-stanley/
8. http://ww2f.com/threads/33-squadron-raf-africa-greece-1940-41.17205/page-2#post-265360

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

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R3630

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English Channel, off Goodwin Sands, Kent

w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
05-Mar-2015 09:03	gerard57	Added
27-Mar-2015 15:53	SIS07	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport]
26-Sep-2018 10:11	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
03-Oct-2019 16:28	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]