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| Date: | Friday 28 August 1942 |
| Time: | 00:26 |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | W4124 |
| MSN: | KM-D |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Haltern, Horstmar, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire |
Operation - Kassel, Hessen.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Wolfrat Bauer of the 7./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 F-4 from Twente airfield in the Netherlands.
The crew on this sortie were:
Flying Officer Russell Henry Suckling (411469 RNZAF) - Pilot
Sergeant Thomas Bickers (521924 RAF) - Flight Engineer
Sergeant Edward Charles Allen (1259470
RAFVR) - Bombardier
Sergeant Miles Rowbottom (1027453 RAFVR) - Navigator
Sergeant Albert Edward Johnson (1112721
RAFVR) - Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Flight Sergeant Allen Frederick Christie (R/91312 RCAF) - Air Gunner
(Please note that some records give his rank as Pilot Officer and not Flight Sergeant. See source 4.
Sergeant Herbert Vincent Winch (962373 RAFVR) - Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
The crew all rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Allen Christie is commemorated on a family memorial in Dundee, Scotland, where his brother - Flight Sergeant Stanley Alexander Christie (J/17389 RCAF), who was lost in Halifax II HR689 on 26 March 1943 - is buried. See source 5.
Sources:
1. Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
2. http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=W4124
3. Google Maps
4. https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2459173
5. https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/103492
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 19-May-2020 13:58 | TigerTimon | Added |
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