Date & Time:
Dec 17, 1942 at 1956 LT
Type of aircraft:
Short S.29 Stirling
Operator:
Registration:
R9247
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Newmarket - Newmarket
Country:
Germany
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 Newmarket at 1800LT on an operation to Fallersleben. Approaching Vechta, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed near the airfield. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Henry Edwin Rousseau, pilot,
Sgt William Wilson Morton, flight engineer,
P/O Mervyn Oliver Clark, observer,
Sgt Reginald Crosby Mocock, bomb aimer,
Sgt Christopher James Kendal, wireless operator,
F/Sgt John Fellows, air gunner,
Sgt Henry Welsh Pullar, air gunner.
Crew:
F/Sgt Henry Edwin Rousseau, pilot,
Sgt William Wilson Morton, flight engineer,
P/O Mervyn Oliver Clark, observer,
Sgt Reginald Crosby Mocock, bomb aimer,
Sgt Christopher James Kendal, wireless operator,
F/Sgt John Fellows, air gunner,
Sgt Henry Welsh Pullar, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
