Date & Time:
Jun 26, 1943 at 0217 LT
Type of aircraft:
Avro 683 Lancaster
Operator:
Registration:
R5740
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Lake, Sea, Ocean, River
Schedule:
Dunholme Lodge - Dunholme Lodge
Country:
Netherlands
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
8
Crew fatalities:
8
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
0
Total fatalities:
8
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Dunholme Lodge at 2251LT on June 25 on an operation to Gelsenkirchen. It was shot down by a German fighter and crashed into the North Sea some 50 km west of Texel Island. All eight crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Derek Minden Sharp, pilot,
P/O Donald MacLean Struthers, copilot,
F/Sgt Thomas Johnstone, flight engineer,
Sgt Rowland Josiah Dash, navigator,
Sgt Reginald Herbert William Thompson, bomb aimer,
Sgt Norman Henry Morris, wireless operator,
Sgt Ernest Reginald Hylton Griffiths, air gunner,
Sgt Kenneth William Langstaff, air gunner.
Crew:
P/O Derek Minden Sharp, pilot,
P/O Donald MacLean Struthers, copilot,
F/Sgt Thomas Johnstone, flight engineer,
Sgt Rowland Josiah Dash, navigator,
Sgt Reginald Herbert William Thompson, bomb aimer,
Sgt Norman Henry Morris, wireless operator,
Sgt Ernest Reginald Hylton Griffiths, air gunner,
Sgt Kenneth William Langstaff, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
