Date & Time:
Sep 8, 1942 at 2330 LT
Type of aircraft:
Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax II
Operator:
Registration:
W7782
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
Yes
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Middleton Saint George - Middleton Saint George
Country:
Belgium
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
3
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
0
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Middleton St George at 1935LT on an operation to Frankfurt. In the late evening, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Sclayn. Three crew members were killed, two became PoW and two evaded.
Crew:
F/Lt Philip Hampden Tippetts-Aylmer, pilot, †
P/O Edgar William Thomas Gibbs, air gunner, †
F/Sgt George Reginald Yeates, air gunner, †
W/O Thomas Speers Brandon,
Sgt Eric Theodore Hazell Hodge,
Sgt R. Brown,
Sgt J. A. Winterbottom.
Crew:
F/Lt Philip Hampden Tippetts-Aylmer, pilot, †
P/O Edgar William Thomas Gibbs, air gunner, †
F/Sgt George Reginald Yeates, air gunner, †
W/O Thomas Speers Brandon,
Sgt Eric Theodore Hazell Hodge,
Sgt R. Brown,
Sgt J. A. Winterbottom.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
