Crash of a Short S.29 Stirling I in Mesmont: 7 killed
Date & Time:
Aug 29, 1942 at 0315 LT
Operator:
Registration:
R9153
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Bourn - Bourn
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
7
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Bourn at 2035LT on August 28 on an operation to Nuremberg. While returning to base the following night, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Mesmont. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Eric Courtenay Patterson, pilot,
Sgt Kenneth Hawthorn, flight engineer,
W/O Edmond William John Gilson, observer,
F/Sgt Victor George Lawrence, wireless operator,
Sgt John Outram Ludgate, air gunner,
Sgt Arthur Graham Oswin, air gunner,
Sgt Gerald Victor Payne, air gunner.
Crew:
P/O Eric Courtenay Patterson, pilot,
Sgt Kenneth Hawthorn, flight engineer,
W/O Edmond William John Gilson, observer,
F/Sgt Victor George Lawrence, wireless operator,
Sgt John Outram Ludgate, air gunner,
Sgt Arthur Graham Oswin, air gunner,
Sgt Gerald Victor Payne, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
