Date & Time:
Jun 17, 1943 at 0100 LT
Type of aircraft:
Avro 683 Lancaster
Operator:
Registration:
ED553
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Grimsby - Grimsby
Country:
Belgium
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 Grimsby at 2245LT on June 16 on an operation to Cologne. Passing over Belgium, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Wommelgem, 8 km east southeast of Antwerp. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Clifford Boughton, pilot,
Sgt Alfred John Banfield, flight engineer,
Sgt Douglas Hope Newton Slinger, navigator,
Sgt Cyril Claude Dabson, wireless operator,
Sgt George Taylor, bomb aimer,
Sgt Walter Ernest Barley, air gunner,
Sgt James Walker, air gunner.
Crew:
Sgt Clifford Boughton, pilot,
Sgt Alfred John Banfield, flight engineer,
Sgt Douglas Hope Newton Slinger, navigator,
Sgt Cyril Claude Dabson, wireless operator,
Sgt George Taylor, bomb aimer,
Sgt Walter Ernest Barley, air gunner,
Sgt James Walker, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
