Date:	Thursday 13 May 1943
Time:	03:28
Type:	Short Stirling Mk III
Owner/operator:	218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF
Registration:	BK705
MSN:	HA-K
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	North Sea 40 km west of Petten, Noord-Holland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Downham Market
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Shot down by night fighter pilot Leutnant Robert Denzel of the 12./NJG 1, flying Bf 110 G-4 G9+HZ from Bergen airfield.

Takeoff time: 00:44

Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Robert John Bryans RCAF J/17097 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Francis Bernard Holmes RAFVR 1029217 [Killed]
Navigator : Sergeant John Robert Thompson RAF 657132 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant John Davies RAFVR 1318543 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Jeffrey Fitton RAFVR 1075399 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Flight Sergeant Keith Lavon Garman RCAF R/134226 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Kenneth Gerald Money RAF 656686 [Killed]

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
https://www.backtonormandy.org/component/mtree/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/stirling/20162-BK7051943-05-13.html
218 Sqn war records from The National Archives UK
Personnel files from both RCAF crew members including official loss report
https://aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=bk705&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1270634
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1530718
https://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=BK705
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-May-2018 19:26	TigerTimon	Added
04-Oct-2018 15:21	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator, ]
09-Oct-2023 13:43	tachel	Updated
11-May-2024 06:48	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]