Date & Time: Nov 9, 1942 at 2037 LT
Type of aircraft:
Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax II
Operator:
Registration:
W7864
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Lake, Sea, Ocean, River
Schedule:
Pocklington - Pocklington
Location:
Ameland Island
Friesland
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 Pocklington at 1752LT on an operation to Hamburg. While returning to base in the evening, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed into the sea some 35 km north of Ameland Island. All eight crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Thomas Richard Norman Fetherston, pilot,
Sgt Charles Cyril Brook,
P/O Thomas Edwin Dunlop,
Sgt Frederick William Hope,
F/Sgt Gerald Anthony Neville,
F/Sgt James Kelleher Player,
Sgt Milton Victor Riddle,
F/Sgt Nicholas Sidorchuk.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.