Date:	Tuesday 26 March 1940
Time:	night
Type:	Handley Page Hampden Mk I
Owner/operator:	44 Sqn RAF
Registration:	L4102
MSN:	KM-M
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Aircraft missing
Location:	Missing - North Sea -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
During the night of 25-26 March 1940, the Hampden L4102 (KM-M) of 44 Sqdn RAF did not return from a Recco sortie to the Elbe Estuary and disappeared in the North Sea with its four crew. An SOS message was received at 00:35 but nothing more was heard.
Crew
Sgt (580191) Stephen Alfred Williams (pilot) RAF : killed
Sgt (566191) Albert Richard Jones (Obs/AB ) RAF : killed
Sgt (581037) Raymond Wilfred Cross (WOp/AG) RAF : killed
AC1 (551348) Anthony Creighton Hamman (AG) RAF : killed

1. "Bomber Command losses, vol 1. Aircraft and Crews lost during 1939-1940", by W R Chorley, ISBN 0-904597-85-7
2. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?21753-Air-81-Trance-4-Part-1-Air-81-1742-to-AIr-81-1999-Now-with-Open-Status
3. https://www.backtonormandy.org/component/mtree/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/hampden/28425-RAF10687.html
4, https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1531720/williams,-stephen-alfred/
5. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1802247/jones,-albert-richard/
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1799233/hamman,-anthony-creighton/
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/231559/cross,-raymond-wilfred/
8. National archives Kew 44 Sddn ORB REcord of Events Doc AIR27/447/12 page 9

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Jul-2017 06:44	Laurent Rizzotti	Added
25-Jun-2018 19:37	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
26-May-2022 16:06	Anon.	Updated [Narrative, ]
27-Jul-2024 20:39	Nepa	Updated [Location, Narrative, Operator, ]
21-Oct-2024 18:12	Peter194	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]