Date & Time:
Mar 27, 1943
Type of aircraft:
Avro 683 Lancaster
Operator:
Registration:
W4895
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Warboys - Warboys
Country:
Germany
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 Warboys at 2025LT on an operation to Berlin. It crashed in unknown circumstances near the hamlet of Döberitz, east of Premnitz. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Reginald John Wallis, pilot,
Sgt Alexander Mackenzie, flight engineer,
F/Sgt John Goodwillie Shepherd, navigator,
Sgt Frederick James Walder, navigator,
Sgt Urien Thomas, wireless operator,
W/O Gordon Thomas Hillman, air gunner,
Sgt Stanley Poole, air gunner.
Crew:
P/O Reginald John Wallis, pilot,
Sgt Alexander Mackenzie, flight engineer,
F/Sgt John Goodwillie Shepherd, navigator,
Sgt Frederick James Walder, navigator,
Sgt Urien Thomas, wireless operator,
W/O Gordon Thomas Hillman, air gunner,
Sgt Stanley Poole, air gunner.
