Date:	Wednesday 26 May 1943
Time:	02:33
Type:	Short Stirling Mk III
Owner/operator:	90 Sqn RAF
Registration:	EH876
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Aircraft missing
Location:	North Sea 70 km west of Alkmaar, Noord-Holland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Unknown
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Ridgewell
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Shot down by night fighter pilot Feldwebel Heinz Vinke of the 11./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Bergen airfield.
Crashed off the island of Texel, Holland. Only 1 body washed ashore, that of F/O C F O'Connell who was buried in the Den Burg (Texel) Cemetery. Aircraft was raiding Düsseldorf that night.

Call Sign: WP-J
Takeoff time: 23:50

Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Gordon William Young DFC RCAF J/16906 [Killed] Runnymede Memorial 179
2nd Pilot : Warrant Officer Class II Michael George King East RCAF R/118286 [Killed] Runnymede Memorial 180
Flight Engineer : Sergeant William Harry Bryant RAFVR 1294010 [Killed] Runnymede Memorial 144
Navigator : Flight Sergeant Charles Little Saundercock RNZAF NZ/404949 [Killed] Runnymede Memorial 199
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant James Leeman Poulter RAFVR 1534581 [Killed] Runnymede Memorial 138
Wireless Operator : Sergeant Richard Wadsworth RAFVR 1376718 [Killed] Runnymede Memorial 168
Mid-Upper Gunner : Warrant Officer Class II Ernest Sinclair Pollon RCAF R/124287 [Killed] Runnymede Memorial 180
Rear Gunner : Flying Officer Cornelius Frederick O'Connell RAFVR 126607 [Killed] Den Burg K 4 76 Washed up near pole 26 Texel 16 Aug 43

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2381&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Circumstantial Report ref. 90S/66/27/P.1. on the loss of this aircraft, from C.O. 90 Squadron to Air Ministry
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
30-Jul-2016 05:22	GARY S	Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, ]
24-May-2018 19:45	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
31-Oct-2018 20:02	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator, ]
12-Jan-2019 10:37	TigerTimon	Updated [Narrative, ]
19-May-2024 08:26	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]