Date:	Tuesday 10 September 1940
Time:
Type:	Handley Page Hampden Mk I
Owner/operator:	44 Sqn RAF
Registration:	P4371
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Missing - English Channel -   France
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:	RAF Waddington

Narrative:
Hampden P4371 Took off at 20:50 hrs for bombing sortie to Calais Harbour. 10/09/1940
The plane crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea while approaching the target /probably for enemy action over Calais, France.
Crew:
Sgt Ronald James BRADING (581140) Obs RAF - missing believed killed - Runnyede Memorial panel 12
Sgt Herbert George LACEY (523679) RAF - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 16
F/Lt Douglas John ROGERS (39174) pilot RAF - missing believed killed - Runnymede Memorial panel 289
Sgt Bernard Newman WESTHORP (629457) WOp/AG RAF - killed - Oye-Plage Communal Cemetery, France (Row 1, grave 11)

1.National Archives Kew 44 Sqdn ORB Record of Events DOC AIR27/447/24 page 9
2.AIR81/3193 // C16472581
3.CWGC
4.Bomber Command Losses (1939-1940) WR Chorley, page 109

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
21-Oct-2024 19:35	Peter194	Added
27-Oct-2024 07:19	Nepa	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Operator, ]
11-Aug-2025 09:24	MMR	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]