Date:	Thursday 9 July 1942
Time:	01:40 LT
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk III
Owner/operator:	101 Sqn RAF
Registration:	X3634
MSN:	SR-L
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Innenjade at Wilhelmshaven, Niedersachsen (claim location) -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Bourn
Destination airport:	Wilhelmshaven

Narrative:
(Target: Wilhelmshaven)
The aircraft was hit by the 1. Luftsperr-Abteilung 206 (o) and the Marine-Flak-Abteilung 232 battery Sande and crashed into the Innenjade.
Plt Off Tregea was born in Argentina. Whilst under training as a pilot in 1941 he became a naturalised Briton.

All of the crew are missing in action:

104371 Plt Off James Richard Tregea - Runnymede Memorial Panel 72. (NCO:1125878, Gazette of 30th September 1941)
1169555 Sgt Hugh Cuthbert Craig - Runnymede Memorial Panel 80.
798553 Sgt Alexander Albert Brace - Runnymede Memorial Panel 98
798545 Sgt Charles Henry Stewart (Newfoundlander) - Runnymede Memorial Panel 98.
932163 Sgt Leslie John Symonds - Runnymede Memorial Panel 94.

1. Bomber Command Losses 1942
2. http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=X3634
3. National Archives (PRO Kew) 101 Squadron ORB July 1942 (File AIR 27/802/14): https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2503440#imageViewerLink
4. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1530262/brace,-alexander-albert/
5. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1085175/craig,-hugh-cuthbert/
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1809004/tregea,-james-richard/
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1807992/stewart,-charles-henry/
8. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1808335/symonds,-leslie-john/
9. https://theyserved.fandom.com/wiki/James_Tregea
10. Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

9 March 1942

X3656

101 Sqn RAF

6

Lost without trace

mis

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Feb-2018 21:01	Red Dragon	Added
09-Oct-2018 05:40	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]
15-May-2019 22:23	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Location, Country, Phase, Source]
15-May-2019 22:24	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
05-Feb-2020 09:44	stehlik49	Updated [Location, Narrative, Operator]
06-May-2020 08:50	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Damage, Narrative]
13-Dec-2021 08:36	Rob Davis	Updated [Narrative]
08-Jul-2022 08:31	Rob Davis	Updated [Narrative]