Date:	Friday 25 June 1943
Time:	01:59
Type:	Short Stirling Mk III
Owner/operator:	218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF
Registration:	BF501
MSN:	HA-N
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Kaggevinne, Flemish Brabant -   Belgium
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Downham Market
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Takeoff at 23:43 for an operation to Wuppertal, Germany.
Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Hans Autenrieth of the 6./NJG 4 (detached to II./NJG 1), flying a Bf 110 G-4 from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield.

Crew:-
Pilot : Warrant Officer James William Douglas Hoey RCAF R/107769 [Killed]
2nd Pilot : Sergeant Peter Edward Collingwood RAFVR 1433512 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant James Thomson RAFVR 1052427 [Killed]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant Leo De Botte RAFVR 701975 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Raymond Lynn Edgoose RAFVR 1452815 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Arthur William Erne RAFVR 1204724 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Thomas Evan Lloyd RAFVR 979965 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant Ralph Frederick Garrod RAFVR 1331174 [Killed]

All lie at the Kaggevinne Communal Cemetery, Belgium (5.974915 / 5.019424)

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=BF501
Personnel file of the pilot Warrant Officer II James William Douglas Hoey from Ancestry.ca
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2896476
218 Sqn war records from The National Archives UK
RCAF historical microfilm (Archives Canada
https://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=BF501
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database http://robdavistelford.co.uk/webspace/raf_bc

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
22-Dec-2018 15:46	TigerTimon	Added
24-Dec-2018 09:03	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, ]
08-Nov-2022 07:03	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, ]
30-Oct-2023 15:48	tachel	Updated
27-May-2025 06:48	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]