Date & Time:
Apr 15, 1943 at 0223 LT
Type of aircraft:
Short S.29 Stirling
Operator:
Registration:
BF513
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Newmarket - Newmarket
Country:
Belgium
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 2132LT on April 14 on an operation to Stuttgart. While returning to base the following night, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Regnièssart. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Donald Gordon McCaskill, pilot,
Sgt Angus McVicar, flight engineer,
P/O James Kennedy Grainger, navigator,
Sgt Bertram Elwell, bomb aimer,
Sgt Reginald Thomas Charles Green, wireless operator,
Sgt Ernest Desmond Cook, air gunner,
Sgt Ronald Alexander Smith, air gunner.
Crew:
P/O Donald Gordon McCaskill, pilot,
Sgt Angus McVicar, flight engineer,
P/O James Kennedy Grainger, navigator,
Sgt Bertram Elwell, bomb aimer,
Sgt Reginald Thomas Charles Green, wireless operator,
Sgt Ernest Desmond Cook, air gunner,
Sgt Ronald Alexander Smith, air gunner.
Probable cause:
shot down by a German fighter.
