Date:	Monday 1 December 1941
Time:
Type:	Bristol Beaufighter Mk IIF
Owner/operator:	600 (City of London) Sqn RAF
Registration:	R2275
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Celtic Sea, off Land's End, Cornwall, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Predannack, Cornwall
Destination airport:

Narrative:
In fall 1941 the Luftwaffe sent large four-engined FW200 Condors out over the Atlantic to broadcast weather forcasts to Germany. One of the tasks of 600 Sqn RAF at Predannack was to try and intercept these aircraft, thus robbing the Germans of valuable weather information.

Beaufighter R2275: Took off for "milk train" runs in the morning of 01/12/1941
During the flight, the crew noted severe icing. One engine stopped and Beaufighter II R2275 had to be ditched off Land End. A search by air-sea rescue Lysanders, escorted by Spitfires of 66 Sqn, failed to find the dinghy. Both crew were lost.
Crew:
F/Lt (70798) John Guthrie FLETCHER AFC (pilot) RAF - Killed. Washed ashore, cremated at Plymouth city crematorium and commemorated there on panel 3.
Sgt (749872) Edwin John Forgan GRANT (obs) RAFVR - Missing believed killed (Runnymede Memorial, Panel 44)

1.http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?842-Edwin-John-Forgan-Grant
2.http://www.bbm.org.uk/airmen/GrantEJF.htm
3.https://www.cwgc.org/find/find-war-dead
4.AIR27/2059
5. CWGC

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
01-Dec-2017 12:17	Laurent Rizzotti	Added
23-Jun-2019 06:03	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator, ]
14-Jul-2020 14:39	Nepa	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Damage, Narrative, Operator, ]
16-May-2021 19:46	Anon.	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, ]
03-Oct-2022 22:17	Nepa	Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator, ]
03-Apr-2025 19:01	Anon.	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]