Crash of a Short S.29 Stirling I near Thynes: 8 killed
Date & Time:
Aug 24, 1942 at 2350 LT
Operator:
Registration:
W7562
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Downham Market - Downham Market
Crew on board:
8
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
8
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Downham Market at 2110LT on an operation to Frankfurt am Main. Passing over Belgium, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed near Thynes. All eight crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Robert Yates, pilot,
F/Sgt James Auld Morgan, pilot,
Sgt Robert Walter Beales, flight engineer,
Sgt Arthur Edward Richardson, observer,
F/Sgt John Claude McGann, wireless operator,
Sgt Lawrence Frederick George Boreham, wireless operator,
Sgt George Lascelles Boxall, air gunner,
Sgt Benjamin Robert Dixon, air gunner.
Crew:
F/Sgt Robert Yates, pilot,
F/Sgt James Auld Morgan, pilot,
Sgt Robert Walter Beales, flight engineer,
Sgt Arthur Edward Richardson, observer,
F/Sgt John Claude McGann, wireless operator,
Sgt Lawrence Frederick George Boreham, wireless operator,
Sgt George Lascelles Boxall, air gunner,
Sgt Benjamin Robert Dixon, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
