Date & Time:
Apr 21, 1943 at 0250 LT
Type of aircraft:
Short S.29 Stirling
Operator:
Registration:
BF506
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Newmarket - Newmarket
Country:
Denmark
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 2205LT on April 20 on an operation to Rostock. While returning to base the following night and passing over Denmark, it was shot down by a combination of German Flak and German fighter and crashed in Bøgballe. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Alan Gray Tolley, pilot,
Sgt Gerald Albert Raymond Town, flight engineer,
F/Sgt William Henry Ellis, observer,
F/Sgt Frank Wakefield Upton, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt Cyril Thomas Cobb, wireless operator,
Sgt Frederick Joseph Earle, air gunner,
F/Sgt Ian Charles Salt, air gunner.
Crew:
P/O Alan Gray Tolley, pilot,
Sgt Gerald Albert Raymond Town, flight engineer,
F/Sgt William Henry Ellis, observer,
F/Sgt Frank Wakefield Upton, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt Cyril Thomas Cobb, wireless operator,
Sgt Frederick Joseph Earle, air gunner,
F/Sgt Ian Charles Salt, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a combination of German Flak and German fighter.
