Date:	Friday 26 February 1943
Time:	22:28
Type:	Short Stirling Mk I
Owner/operator:	15 Sqn RAF
Registration:	R9279
MSN:	LS-J
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	North Sea 50 km W of Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Bourn, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Shot down by night fighter pilot Feldwebel Heinz Vinke of the 11./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 from Bergen airfield - North Sea 50km West Noordwijk: 1,400 at 22:28.

Crew
Pilot:J/9742 Flt Lt Victor Henry Harris RCAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 172.
2nd Pilot:656235 Flt Sgt Richard Ashdown - Runnymede Memorial Panel 135.
Flight Engineer:1264399 Sgt Jack Wratten - Runnymede Memorial Panel 170
Navigator:1380939 Sgt Peter Rogers - Runnymede Memorial Panel 163.
Bomb Aimer:1126466 Sgt Howell Rees Jones - Runnymede Memorial Panel 155.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner:1190732 Sgt Wilfred Shaw - Runnymede Memorial Panel 164.
Air Gunner:412166 Sgt William Roy Matthews RAAF - Runnymede Memorial Panel 196.
Air Gunner:1442651 Sgt Sidney Phillips - Runnymede Memorial Panel 161.

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One by Theo Boiten
https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/stirling/26792-R92791943-02-27.html
CWGC
RAAF MEMBERS ATTACHED TO THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND MISSING WITH NO KNOWN GRAVE.

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
26-Feb-2018 09:41	TigerTimon	Added
26-Feb-2018 09:50	TigerTimon	Updated [Aircraft type, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
27-Feb-2018 17:49	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
06-Nov-2018 20:36	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator, ]
11-Jan-2019 16:51	TigerTimon	Updated [Narrative, ]
12-Jan-2019 10:07	TigerTimon	Updated [Narrative, ]
18-Jun-2022 14:06	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, ]