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Date: | Wednesday 29 May 1940 |
Time: | 18:00 |
Type: | Avro Anson Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 500 (County of Kent) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | N5227 |
MSN: | MK-L |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
Location: | Missing off Dunkirk, Pas de Calais -
France
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Detling, Maidstone, Kent |
Destination airport: | RAF Detling, Maidstone, Kent |
Narrative:Avro Anson Mk.I N5227 (MK-L) 500 (County of Kent) Squadron, RAF: Written off (presumed destroyed) when lost (failed to return) from a "Shamrock Patrol" on 29 May 1940. All four crew killed. According to the official Air Ministry File into the incident (File AIR 81/678): "Anson N5227 failed to return from patrol over Dunkirk, France, 30 May 1940. Sergeant H W Johnson, Leading Aircraftman F H Giles, Sergeant R G T Soper and Pilot Officer I S Wheelwright: missing presumed dead"
Took off 15:35 hrs from RAF Detling, Maidstone, Kent. Last seen on the surface of the sea in position VXWY 1357 near destroyer T61 at 18:00 hrs. The body of LAC F H Giles was washed ashore on 30th of July 1940.
Crew of Anson N5227:
Pilot Officer Irvine Syme Wheelwright, RAF (AAF) 91003, posted 30/05/1940, as missing presumed dead
Sergeant Herbert William Johnson, RAF 521711, age 26, posted 30/05/1940, as missing presumed dead
Leading Aircraftman (Wireless Op.) Frank Howard Giles, RAF 812052, killed in action 30/05/1940, body washed ashore 30/07/40, buried at Ameland (Nes) General Cemetery, Friesland, Netherlands
Flight Sergeant Russell George Theophilus Soper, RAFVR 903332, age 22, posted 30/05/1940, as missing presumed dead.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft N1000-N9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1977
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/678:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502342 3. Ross McNeill, Coastal Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 1 (1939-1941), Midland publishing, 2003. ISBN: 1 85780 128 8
4. The Anson File (Ray Sturtivant, Air Britain, 1988 p 53)
5.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1531337/wheelwright,-irvine-syme/ 6.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1802135/johnson,-herbert-william/ 7.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2649025/giles,-frank-howard/ 8.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1807671/soper,-russell-george-theophilus/ 9.
http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/500_squadron.html#2905 10.
http://www.kenthistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=13944.0 11. Detling Airfield: A History 1915-1959 By Anthony J. Moor
12.
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-avro-652-anson-i-north-sea-4-killed-1 13.
http://www.626-squadron.co.uk/willem14c.htm 14.
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T0716A&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= 15.
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