Crash of an Avro 683 Lancaster I in Eemnes: 6 killed
Date & Time:
May 13, 1943 at 0217 LT
Operator:
Registration:
W4955
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Wyton - Wyton
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
6
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Wyton at 0031LT on an operation to Duisburg. Passing over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Eemnes. Six crew members were killed and one became PoW.
Crew:
F/Lt Leslie Arthur Rickinson, pilot, †
F/Sgt David Barclay Bourne, flight engineer, †
F/Sgt Horace D'Arcy Meadows Ransome, navigator,
F/Sgt Thomas Robert Cairns, bomb aimer, †
P/O William Lionel Gibbs, wireless operator, †
F/Sgt Horace Plant, air gunner, †
F/Sgt Stanley Alfred Hathaway, air gunner. †
Crew:
F/Lt Leslie Arthur Rickinson, pilot, †
F/Sgt David Barclay Bourne, flight engineer, †
F/Sgt Horace D'Arcy Meadows Ransome, navigator,
F/Sgt Thomas Robert Cairns, bomb aimer, †
P/O William Lionel Gibbs, wireless operator, †
F/Sgt Horace Plant, air gunner, †
F/Sgt Stanley Alfred Hathaway, air gunner. †
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
