Date:	Monday 6 April 1942
Time:	02:10
Type:	Handley Page Hampden Mk I
Owner/operator:	49 Sqn RAF
Registration:	AT156
MSN:	EA-C
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 4
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	west of Roly, Philippeville, Namur -   Belgium
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Scampton
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Takeoff at 00:15 hrs for an operation to Köln in Germany.
The aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Oberleutnant Wilhelm Herget & Unteroffizier Hans Liebherr of the 4./NJG 1, who had left St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield at 01:17 hrs, in a Bf 110 E-2.
Two of the crew did not survive and rest at Charleroi Communal Cemetery:

Pilot: 742670 Plt Off David Christie Kay DFM - Stalag Luft 1 , Stalag Luft 3. PoW Number 121.
Observer: 1006781 Sgt Robert William Burdon Brown - Charleroi Cemetery Belgium Row. T. Grave 18.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 985888 Sgt James Waddell - Charleroi Cemetery Belgium Row. T. Grave 18.
Air Gunner:1256129 Sgt Stanley John Ainger - Evaded. Escaped via Gibraltar September 1942.

P/O Kay gained his DFM with 83 Sqdn, Gazetted 23 Sep 41.

Charleroi Communal Cemetery, Belgium (50.424697 / 4.45477)

49 Squadron Association
CWGC
Bomber Command Losses 1942
http://aircrewremembered.com/madge-dubois-rhodes.html
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database http://robdavistelford.co.uk/webspace/raf_bc

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
28-Nov-2017 17:25	Red Dragon	Added
30-Oct-2018 05:14	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator, ]
16-Apr-2020 17:02	TigerTimon	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative, ]
26-Jun-2022 03:30	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, ]
12-Apr-2025 06:40	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]