Date:	Thursday 4 June 1942
Time:	02:33
Type:	Avro Manchester Mk I
Owner/operator:	50 Sqn RAF
Registration:	L7432
MSN:	VN-Z
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Schalterdalweg road, Beekbergen, Gelderland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Airborne 21:10 hrs for an operation to Bremen in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot ObLt Wolfrat Bauer of the Stab III./NJG 1, who had taken off from Twente airfield.

Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer John Frankland Heaton RAFVR 60334 (NCO:947281 : Commission Gazetted Friday 21 February, 1941) [Killed]
2nd Pilot : Pilot Officer John Ross Steen RAFVR 109916 (NCO:1334583 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 02 December, 1941) [Killed]
Observer : Pilot Officer Harold William Sheen RAFVR 120997 (NCO:1256782 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 16 June, 1942) [Killed]
Air Gunner : Sergeant Stanley Henry Thomas RAFVR 1282315 [Killed]
Sergeant Peter S Buttigieg RAF 1382710 [PoW]
Sergeant Johnny A Farquhar RAF 817218 [PoW]
Sergeant Ken J F Gaulton RAAF Aus/404669 [PoW]

This is the Manchester brought back from Berlin on one engine by F/Lt 'Kipper' Herring, awarded an immediate DSO for this astonishing feat. He was killed in July 1943 as Second Pilot in the Liberator aircraft 'Sikorsky' crash, off Gibraltar.
Associated Pilot : Flight Lieutenant Wilfred Stanley 'Kipper' Herring DSO DFM MiD RAF 44709 (NCO:564688 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 29 October, 1940)

The casualties lie at the Apeldoorn (Ugchelen-Heidehof) General Cemetery, Netherlands (52.177699 / 5.932700)

Air Britain RAF Aircraft L1000 - N9999 & http://www.lostbombers.co.uk/bomber.php?id=11033
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1573&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
CWGC.org
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
14-Jun-2008 05:46	JINX	Added
25-Jun-2008 05:06	JINX	Updated
03-Jun-2017 10:36	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
12-Nov-2018 20:57	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Operator, ]
25-Apr-2020 12:38	TigerTimon	Updated [Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative, ]
25-Apr-2020 12:38	TigerTimon	Updated [Location, ]
20-Aug-2022 22:05	Nepa	Updated [Narrative, Operator, ]
23-May-2024 06:35	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]