Date:	Friday 7 August 1942
Time:	03:15
Type:	Short Stirling Mk I
Owner/operator:	218 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF
Registration:	N6072
MSN:	HA-P
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Kessel-Eik, Limburg -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Downham Market
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Takeoff at 01:10 hrs for a bombing operation to Duisburg in Germany.
The aircraft was shot down by the night fighter crew of Hauptmann Ludwig Bietmann & Unteroffizier Wolfgang Reinicke of the 5./NJG 1, who were flying Bf 110 F-4 G9+HN from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield in Belgium.

Crew:-
Pilot : Sergeant William John Laidlaw RAF 1022530 [PoW]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Harold Phillip Gardiner RAF 567298 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Warrant Officer Class II Allen Leland Bachelder RCAF R/56438 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant George Clayton Cavanagh RAFVR 1183330 [Killed]
Air Gunner : Sergeant Leslie William Arthur Barnard RAFVR 1384144 [Killed]
Sergeant Jack Victor Green RAF 923930 [PoW]
Flight Sergeant David Watson Moffett RAF 630731 [PoW]

The four casualties lie at the Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Netherlands (51.822371 / 5.830618).

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1762&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
Google Maps
https://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=N6072
https://aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=N6072&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2645054
218 Sqn wartime records from The National Archives UK
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database http://robdavistelford.co.uk/webspace/raf_bc

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
05-Mar-2013 00:11	Mark G	Updated [Total fatalities, Phase, Narrative, ]
12-Aug-2017 21:51	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
15-Jan-2018 18:42	XindelX	Updated [Cn, Operator, Destination airport, Narrative, ]
15-May-2020 08:25	TigerTimon	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative, ]
02-Oct-2023 15:07	tachel	Updated
04-May-2025 06:26	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]