Date & Time:
May 24, 1943 at 0125 LT
Type of aircraft:
Vickers 440 Wellington X
Operator:
Registration:
HE281
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Dishforth - Dishforth
Country:
Netherlands
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
5
Crew fatalities:
5
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
0
Total fatalities:
5
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Dishforth at 2306LT on May 23 on an operation to Dortmund. Passing over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in a field near Buurse. All five crew members were killed.
Crew (426th Squadron):
Sgt Leslie Gordon Sutherland, pilot,
Sgt William Dunkerley, navigator,
Sgt Sydney Jepson, bomb aimer,
W/O Kenneth Howard Masterson, wireless operator,
W/O Levie Afrien Rivest, air gunner.
Crew (426th Squadron):
Sgt Leslie Gordon Sutherland, pilot,
Sgt William Dunkerley, navigator,
Sgt Sydney Jepson, bomb aimer,
W/O Kenneth Howard Masterson, wireless operator,
W/O Levie Afrien Rivest, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
