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Date: | Tuesday 2 June 1942 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | R9529 |
MSN: | DY-H |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Haus Schuir mansion, Schuirweg 74, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Dalton |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:20 hrs for participation in the second 1000 bomber raid; this time the target being Essen.
The aircraft was hit by heavy Flak of the 1./schwere Reserve-Flak-Abteilung 233 and crashed. The entire crew were killed. They were initially buried in the Nordfriedhof in Dusseldorf and on 30th November 1946 were finally re-interred in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery:
Crew:-
Pilot:1378361 Sgt Edmund George Newell - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery 9. E. 8.
Flight Engineer: 569972 Sgt Cedric Reginald Rowlinson - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Grave 9:E:12
Navigator:101529 Plt Off Thomas Maughan Carter - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery 9. E. 9. (NCO:1378868 Commission Gazetted : Friday 15 August, 1941)
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:1169891 Sgt Guy Maurice Selwyn - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery 9. E. 2.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:987750 Sgt Dreacus Callum Grieve - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery 9. E. 10.
Air Gunner:902613 Sgt James Barcraft Teesdale-Smith - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery 9. E. 11.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=R9529 Google Maps
http://undyingmemory.net/kedington/rowlinson-cedric.html CWGC
Bomber Command Losses 1942
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
27 July 1942 |
W1153 |
102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF |
3 |
off Niedersachsen |
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w/o |
24 May 1943 |
JD112 |
102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF |
4 |
near Oude Gouw, Grootslag polder, Bovenkarspel, Noord-Holland |
|
w/o |
20 January 1944 |
HX187 |
102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF |
3 |
Ahrensfelde, 13 km NE from the centre of Berlin |
|
w/o |
20 February 1944 |
JN972 |
102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF |
5 |
Siedener Moor near Maasen, Niedersachsen |
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w/o |
17 June 1944 |
LW192 |
102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF |
7 |
Buren - Buurmalsen; Gelderland |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
06-Jan-2018 20:22 |
Red Dragon |
Added |
14-Oct-2018 17:13 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
22-Dec-2018 13:23 |
TB |
Updated [Location, Source] |
22-Apr-2020 21:03 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
19-Jan-2024 08:47 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |