Date & Time:
Aug 12, 1942 at 0305 LT
Type of aircraft:
Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax II
Operator:
Registration:
W1061
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:
2
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
0
Total fatalities:
2
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Middleton St George at 2137LT on August 11 on an operation to Mainz. While returning to base, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Wommelgem, west of Antwerp. Two crew were killed, four became PoW and one evaded.
Crew:
W/O William Everett Lunan, pilot, †
Sgt Francis Alfred Scotland, flight engineer, †
Sgt John Randall Dickinson,
Sgt John Kingsley Howes,
F/Sgt Leslie Charles Jupp,
Sgt John Hugh Wyatt,
F/Sgt A. E. Fay.
Crew:
W/O William Everett Lunan, pilot, †
Sgt Francis Alfred Scotland, flight engineer, †
Sgt John Randall Dickinson,
Sgt John Kingsley Howes,
F/Sgt Leslie Charles Jupp,
Sgt John Hugh Wyatt,
F/Sgt A. E. Fay.
Probable cause:
Shot down by the German Flak.
