Date & Time:
Jun 22, 1943 at 0230 LT
Type of aircraft:
Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax II
Operator:
Registration:
JB852
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Elvington - Elvington
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 Elvington at 2352LT on June 21 on an operation to Krefeld. Passing over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed onto a Wehrmacht artillery range located east of Harskamp. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Simon Hirsch, pilot,
Sgt John Phillips, flight engineer,
Sgt Charles William Falckh, navigator,
Sgt Raymond Geoffrey Kingsland, bomb aimer,
Sgt Norman Victor Hickling, wireless operator,
Sgt Edmund Dawson, air gunner,
Sgt William Goodman Garratt, air gunner.
Crew:
Sgt Simon Hirsch, pilot,
Sgt John Phillips, flight engineer,
Sgt Charles William Falckh, navigator,
Sgt Raymond Geoffrey Kingsland, bomb aimer,
Sgt Norman Victor Hickling, wireless operator,
Sgt Edmund Dawson, air gunner,
Sgt William Goodman Garratt, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
