Date & Time:
Mar 3, 1943 at 2129 LT
Type of aircraft:
Avro 683 Lancaster
Operator:
Registration:
W4855
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Wickenby - Wickenby
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 Wickenby at 1858LT on an operation to Hamburg. Approaching the target area, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed west of Stade, some 34 km west of Hamburg. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Kenneth Rupert William Simmonds, pilot,
Sgt Laurence Burnett, flight engineer,
F/Sgt Ian Victor Heatley, navigator,
F/Sgt Donald Kerr, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt Henry Herbert Brien, wireless operator,
Sgt Roy Victor Malcolm Davenport, air gunner,
F/Sgt Archibald John Marfell, air gunner.
Crew:
Sgt Kenneth Rupert William Simmonds, pilot,
Sgt Laurence Burnett, flight engineer,
F/Sgt Ian Victor Heatley, navigator,
F/Sgt Donald Kerr, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt Henry Herbert Brien, wireless operator,
Sgt Roy Victor Malcolm Davenport, air gunner,
F/Sgt Archibald John Marfell, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
