Date & Time:
Apr 1, 1943 at 0722 LT
Type of aircraft:
Avro 683 Lancaster
Operator:
Registration:
ED626
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Elsham Wolds - Elsham Wolds
Country:
Netherlands
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 Elsham Wolds at 0429LT on an operation to Emmerich. Over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Hulshorst. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
S/L Charles O'Donoghue, pilot,
Sgt James Edward Callaghan, flight engineer,
Sgt Antony Hare Fry, navigator,
F/O Eric Richard Victor Ashcroft, bomb aimer,
Sgt John Edwin Winn, wireless operator,
F/O Ian Crawford Burns, air gunner,
Sgt Sefton Stafford, air gunner.
Crew:
S/L Charles O'Donoghue, pilot,
Sgt James Edward Callaghan, flight engineer,
Sgt Antony Hare Fry, navigator,
F/O Eric Richard Victor Ashcroft, bomb aimer,
Sgt John Edwin Winn, wireless operator,
F/O Ian Crawford Burns, air gunner,
Sgt Sefton Stafford, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Short down by a German fighter.
