Date:	Sunday 12 January 1941
Time:
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk Ic
Owner/operator:	148 Sqn RAF
Registration:	T2892
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 5
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Mediterranean Sea -
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Luqa, Malta
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from Luqa, Malta, for a mission to Catania, Sicily, Italy. Aircraft was hit by flak and the fuel tanks punctured. The pilot ditched the plane in the Mediterranean Sea near HM Trawler JADE. The crew was rescued. Two of the crew died of wounds.

Crew:
F/O A.F.A. OSBORN - survived
Sgt R.J. BELCHER - survived
Sgt P.W. DIGBY - survived
740543 Sgt Geoffrey Charles HALL - died of wounds 14-01-1941
749561 Sgt James REARDON - died of wounds 13-01-1941

Both dead are buried at Malta (Capuccini) Naval Cemetery, Malta.

1.Bomber Command Losses In the Middle East and Med. (Volume 1: 1939-1942) David Gunby & Pelham Temple, page 39
2.AIR81/4853
3.https://www.militaryimages.net/media/g-c-hall-l-l-a-craig-k-l-donald-h-h-earney-o-l-holmes-s-c-morrison-a-s-b-paterson-r-semley.66060/
4.CWGC

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