Date & Time:
Apr 15, 1943 at 0218 LT
Type of aircraft:
Avro 683 Lancaster
Operator:
Registration:
W4951
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Holme-on-Spalding-Moor - Holme-on-Spalding-Moor
Country:
France
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
7
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
0
Total fatalities:
7
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Holme-on-Spalding-Moor in the evening of April 14 on an operation to Stuttgart. While returning to base the following night, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed near Maubeuge. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Robert Gordon Hamilton, pilot,
Sgt Frank Wood, flight engineer,
F/O Henry Eifion Clement, navigator,
Sgt Aaron Ottolangui, bomb aimer,
Sgt Joseph Leadbetter Cartmell, wireless operator,
Sgt Peter Donovan Steed, air gunner,
Sgt George William Henry Northover, air gunner.
Crew:
Sgt Robert Gordon Hamilton, pilot,
Sgt Frank Wood, flight engineer,
F/O Henry Eifion Clement, navigator,
Sgt Aaron Ottolangui, bomb aimer,
Sgt Joseph Leadbetter Cartmell, wireless operator,
Sgt Peter Donovan Steed, air gunner,
Sgt George William Henry Northover, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
