Date:	Tuesday 13 June 1944
Time:	01:30 LT
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:	460 Sqn RAAF
Registration:	ME785
MSN:	AR-H2
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Wesepe, Overijssel -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Binbrook
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Binbrook at 23:05 hrs for a bombing operation against the Nordstern synthetic oil plant at Gelsenkirchen in Germany. Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Feldwebel Karl-Georg Pfeiffer of the 11./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from an airfield in Belgium; crashed near Wesepe in the province of Overijssel, coming down on the Raalte to Deventer road. All were taken to nearby Duur and laid to rest in Olst (Duur) General Cemetery on 16 June. Plt off Fry RAAF was an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants:

Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Austin Frederick Roche RAAF Aus/5136 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Joseph Beaddie Ross RAFVR 1673067 [Killed]
Navigator : Pilot Officer James Rollo Fry RAAF Aus/422165 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant Robert Trevor Hill RAAF Aus/20076 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Flight Sergeant Thomas Edwin Sage RAFVR 1146986 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Flight Sergeant Mervyn Thomas Whittenbury RAAF Aus/417920 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Gerald Gordon Barker RAFVR 1894666 [Killed]

All lie at the Olst (Duur) General Cemetery, Netherlands (52.337997 / 6.106812)

Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 276.
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http://www.militarian.com/threads/raaf-man-shot-down-over-holland.2252/
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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
15-Jun-2016 21:35	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
23-Oct-2018 14:07	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator, ]
05-Oct-2020 18:24	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative, ]
27-May-2024 07:01	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]