Date & Time:
Jun 23, 1943 at 0135 LT
Type of aircraft:
Short S.29 Stirling
Operator:
Registration:
EF408
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
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 2340LT on June 22 on an operation to Mülheim. Approaching the target area, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Gelsenkirchen, killing the entire crew.
Crew:
F/Sgt Benjamin Brinley Wood, pilot,
Sgt Stanley Lawrence Webb, flight engineer,
F/Sgt George King Samson, navigator,
F/Sgt Stuart Richard Bisset, bomb aimer,
Sgt Edgar Henry Reader, wireless operator,
Sgt Cyril Benjamin Hemmings, air gunner,
Sgt Frederick Johns Hobbs, air gunner.
Crew:
F/Sgt Benjamin Brinley Wood, pilot,
Sgt Stanley Lawrence Webb, flight engineer,
F/Sgt George King Samson, navigator,
F/Sgt Stuart Richard Bisset, bomb aimer,
Sgt Edgar Henry Reader, wireless operator,
Sgt Cyril Benjamin Hemmings, air gunner,
Sgt Frederick Johns Hobbs, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by the German Flak.
