Date:	Tuesday 7 November 1939
Time:	night
Type:	Fairey Battle Mk I
Owner/operator:	98 Sqn RAF
Registration:	K9238
MSN:	F.2827
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Stow-on-The-Wold, Gloucestershire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Cranfield, Bedfordshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Fairey Battle Mk.I K9238, 98 Squadron ("VD-T") RAF Hucknall: Written off (destroyed) 7/11/39 when flew into the ground in fog and low cloud, near Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. All three crew were killed.

Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Donald Kerr Robertson RAF 70578 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 24 August, 1937) [Killed] age 20
Navigator : Sergeant Ronald Leslie Harrison RAF 580491 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Aircraftman 2nd Class Francis Joseph Wilkes RAF 618247 [Killed]

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1976 page 76)
2. The Battle File (Sidneyu Shail, Air Britain, 1997 p 131)
3. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/1636: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16359675
4. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1939a.htm
5. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2451422/robertson,-donald-kerr/
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2411715/harrison,-ronald-leslie/
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2450232/wilkes,-francis-joseph/
8. http://www.chippingnortonbritishlegion.com/little-rissington-churchyard.php
9. http://www.aviation-links.co.uk/Gloucestershire%20Aircraft%20Accidents.pdf
10. http://www.rafjever.org/98squadchronology.htm
11. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
25-Apr-2018 19:40	Dr. John Smith	Added
01-Nov-2018 10:07	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator, ]
26-Jun-2019 18:52	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, ]
15-Sep-2024 19:12	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]
11-Jul-2025 14:37	MMR	Updated