Date:	Wednesday 2 October 1940
Time:	00:15 LT
Type:	Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V
Owner/operator:	78 Sqn RAF
Registration:	P4964
MSN:	EY-
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Hessenweg road, Hummelo, Gelderland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Dishforth, North Yorkshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
The crew were briefed to attack synthetic oil installations in the Holten district of Sterkade. The ATD of the aircraft from RAF Dishforth, Yorkshire was 1906

The aircraft was intercepted and shot down by the night fighter crew of Leutnant Mangelsdorf & Unteroffizier Winter of the 2./NJG 1, who were flying a Bf 110 from Deelen airfield. The Messerschmitt crew operated in conjunction with radar guided searchlight batteries. The aircraft crashed on land belonging to a Mr Demmink at the Hessenweg, Hummelo, (Gelderland); 21km E of Arnhem. The five crew members rest in the local cemetery:

Pilot P/O N.H. Andrew + / from New Zealand / 21 years old
2nd Pilot P/O H.W. Morgan + / from New Zealand / 27 years old
Observer Sgt G.E. Matson + / from Canada / 20 years old
Wireless Operator Sgt P.H. Richmond + / 19 years old
Rear Gunner Sgt A. Roscoe + / 19 years old

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T0856&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nobody Unprepared (History of 78 Sqn) Vernon Holland
4 Group Bomber Command - Chris Ward
Chorley's BCL
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
Google Maps
Commonwealth Graves Commission

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

22 July 1940	N1487	78 Sqn RAF	5	near Sprakel (Münster) and Gimbte (Greven), Nordrhein-Westfalen		w/o
9 January 1941	T4203	78 Sqn RAF	5	Ubbergen, Gelderland		w/o
19 June 1941	Z6560	78 Sqn RAF	4	North Sea 90 km northeast of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England		w/o
30 June 1941	Z6664	78 Sqn RAF	5	North Sea NNW of Ameland, Friesland		w/o
3 July 1941	Z6558	78 Sqn RAF	4	Itteren, Maastricht, Limburg		w/o
8 November 1941	Z9151	78 Sqn RAF	1	Rhinow, Brandenburg		w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
18-Oct-2013 19:43	Anon.	Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Source, Narrative]
18-Oct-2013 19:44	Anon.	Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
26-Feb-2014 14:43	Nepa	Updated [Time, Operator]
18-Sep-2020 16:49	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Cn, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
18-Sep-2020 16:55	TigerTimon	Updated [Source, Narrative]