Date:	Monday 3 January 1944
Time:	01:00-30
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	463 Sqn RAAF
Registration:	JA902
MSN:	JO-D
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Noordoostpolder, near Emmeloord, Overijssel -   Netherlands
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Waddington at 23:13 hrs for an operation to Berlin.
Believed hit by Flak causing bomb load to explode, crashed on low-lying piece of land in the Noordoostpolder.
Four were buried on various dates in Vollenhove (Stad Vollenhove) General Cemetery. The others have no known graves.
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Jack Weatherill RAAF Aus/410021 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Albert Edward Cowell RAFVR 1860362 [Killed]
Navigator : Flying Officer John Watson Gage RAFVR 151085 [Killed] (NCO:1323773 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 27 April, 1943)
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant Francis Noel Looney RAAF Aus/423290 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Flight Sergeant William Donald Toohey RAAF Aus/426401 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Pilot Officer Peter Louis Symonds RAAF Aus/408054 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant Colin Hemingway RAAF Aus/417839 [Killed]

Gage, Symonds and Toohey : Runnymede Memorial
Cowell, Hemingway, Looney and Weatherill : Vollenhove General Cemetery

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3280&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 25.
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission
https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/lancaster/Lancaster11262.html
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Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
04-Jun-2016 13:34	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
11-Nov-2018 12:54	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator]
26-Nov-2019 09:41	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative]
26-Nov-2019 09:45	TigerTimon	Updated [Location]
12-Jun-2022 03:08	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]
17-Jun-2022 21:12	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]
02-Jan-2024 07:59	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]