Crash of an Avro 683 Lancaster I into the North Sea: 7 killed

Date & Time: Jan 18, 1943
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
W4789
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Wickenby - Wickenby
Location:
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
7
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Wickenby at 1626LT on an operation to Berlin. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/Sgt Douglas Clarke Morphett, pilot,
Sgt Leslie Ernest Austin,
F/Sgt John Keith Bond,
Sgt Jim Corke,
F/Sgt Colin McDowell Miller,
Sgt Derek Bryan Pollitt,
Sgt William Richard Maunder, air gunner.

Crash of an Avro 683 Lancaster I into the North Sea: 7 killed

Date & Time: Jan 18, 1943
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
W4372
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Wickenby - Wickenby
Location:
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
7
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Wickenby at 1634LT on an operation to Berlin. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
P/O Eric Bayly Withell, pilot,
P/O Wilfrid Gordon Burrows,
Sgt James Stewart Hunter,
P/O Robert Bruce Mullinger,
F/Sgt Alan Frank Neale,
Sgt Andrew Mitchell, air gunner,
Sgt Leslie Henry Richardson, air gunner.

Crash of an Avro 683 Lancaster I into the North Sea: 7 killed

Date & Time: Jan 18, 1943
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
ED436
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Waddington - Waddington
Location:
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
7
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Waddington at 1656LT on an operation to Berlin. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt John George Bruce Chilvers, pilot,
F/O Charles Broadbent Haslam,
Sgt Thomas William Jones,
Sgt Andrew McCabe,
Sgt Bernard Naylor,
Sgt Leslie Whiteside,
F/Sgt Florian Mercier Lacasse, air gunner.

Crash of an Avro 683 Lancaster I into the North Sea: 8 killed

Date & Time: Jan 18, 1943
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
W4157
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Waddington - Waddington
Location:
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
8
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
8
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Waddington at 1658LT on an operation to Berlin. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
P/O Trevor Leslie Gibson, pilot,
Sgt John William Robinson Broadley,
F/O Eric William Mitchell Jacombs,
Sgt Harry Goodwin Jenkins,
F/Sgt Bernard Kenneth Skinner,
F/O Cyril Garnett Tilson,
Sgt Stanley Wescombe,
W/O Francis Arthur Webb, air gunner.

Crash of an Avro 683 Lancaster I into the North Sea: 7 killed

Date & Time: Jan 18, 1943
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
ED318
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Waddington - Waddington
Location:
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
7
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Waddington at 1709LT on an operation to Berlin. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Richard Calcutt, pilot,
Sgt Colin Patrick Mitchell, flight engineer,
Sgt Stanley Allen, navigator,
Sgt Richard Dowding Perkins, bomb aimer,
W/O Roy Cook Fenton, wireless operator,
Sgt Robert Douglas Bradbury, air gunner,
Sgt Vincent Lawrence, air gunner.

Crash of an Avro 683 Lancaster I into the North Sea: 7 killed

Date & Time: Jan 17, 1943
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
ED316
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Lindholme - Lindholme
Location:
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
7
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Lindholme on January 17 on an operation to Berlin. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/L Sefton Douglas Hood, pilot,
Sgt David John Lindsay,
Sgt Harold Frederick Muller,
Sgt Harold Woodrow,
F/O Keith Benjamin Walter,
F/O Kenneth Arnold Weaving,
F/Sgt Stanley Ernest Logue, air gunner.

Crash of an Avro 683 Lancaster I into the North Sea: 7 killed

Date & Time: Jan 17, 1943
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
W4321
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Holme-on-Spalding-Moor - Holme-on-Spalding-Moor
Location:
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
7
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Holme-on-Spalding-Moor at 1630LT on an operation to Berlin. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/O James Gilbert Duffill, pilot,
Sgt Derrick John Ball,
Sgt Donald George Thomas,
Sgt James Henry Bakewell,
Sgt Thomas Robert Shirley,
Sgt William Lewis,
Sgt Eric Archibald Campbell, air gunner.

Crash of an Avro 683 Lancaster III into the North Sea: 7 killed

Date & Time: Jan 17, 1943
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
ED471
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Skellingthorpe - Skellingthorpe
Location:
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
7
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Skellingthorpe on an operation to Berlin. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
P/O Esmond Peter Heinrich, pilot,
F/Sgt Arthur Gwilyn Thomas,
F/Sgt Iain Fraser,
Sgt Jack Eastwood,
Sgt Leslie James Bond,
F/O Robert Harvie,
W/O John Alwin Moore, air gunner.

Crash of a Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax II into the North Sea: 7 killed

Date & Time: Jan 9, 1943
Operator:
Registration:
W7857
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Middleton Saint George - Middleton Saint George
Location:
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
7
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Middleton St George at 1632LT to lay mines off the Frisian Islands. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt F. H. Barker, pilot,
Sgt R. E. Sackville-Golden,
F/Sgt H. A. Dunn,
F/Sgt V. A. Hugli,
Sgt D. A. Watson,
Sgt W. D. Cameron,
F/Sgt W. G. Murphy, air gunner.

Crash of an Avro 683 Lancaster I into the North Sea: 7 killed

Date & Time: Jan 8, 1943
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
ED367
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Bottesford - Bottesford
Location:
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
7
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Bottesford at 1726LT on an operation to Duisburg. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Albert Mercier Wark, pilot,
Sgt E. J. C. Florey,
Sgt D. H. B. Powell,
Sgt R. T. Hanbidge,
Sgt S. V. Woyce,
Sgt J. W. Humphries,
Sgt H. A. Horton, air gunner.