Date:	Monday 27 May 1940
Time:	day
Type:	Supermarine Spitfire Mk I
Owner/operator:	610 (County of Chester) Sqn RAF
Registration:	L1003
MSN:	217
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	English Channel, off Dunkirk, Pas de Calais -   France
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Biggin Hill, Bromley, Kent
Destination airport:

Narrative:
L1003: Spitfire Mk.Ia (c/no. 217). First Flown 5-6-39. Delivered to the RAF at 10 MU 7-6-39. First issued to 610 (County of Chester) Squadron 7-10-39 as "DW-J". Missing presumed shot down by Bf109s off Dunkerque 27-5-40. Pilot killed, Total Flying Hours 114.10.

According to the official Air Ministry file into the incident (File AIR 81/613): "Sergeant W T Medway: report of death. Spitfire L1008 [*sic] crashed in the Dunkirk area, France, 27 May 1940".

Crew of Spitfire L1003:
Sergeant (Pilot) William Thomas Medway, RAFVR 740320, killed in action 27/05/1940, Buried at Oosduinkerke Communal Cemetery west of Nieuport, Kolksijde, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Row E. Grave 111

Note that the official Air Ministry File AIR 81/613 is in error - the Spitfire involved in this incident was L1003 and not L1008. Spitfire L1008 force landed at Glastonbury, Somerset on 25 September 1940

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-L9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 5)
2. Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War Volume 1. by Norman L R Franks
3. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/613): https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502305
4. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2082424/medway,-william-thomas/
5. http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/610_squadron.html#2705
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p002.html
7. http://allspitfirepilots.org/aircraft/219
8. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?6662-Sgt-Medway-William-Thomas
9. http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/raf-losses-may-1940-an-update.16940/page-14#post-200402

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Jul-2013 02:04	JINX	Added
01-Aug-2013 20:17	Nepa	Updated [Operator]
11-Mar-2016 15:54	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
21-Aug-2019 22:56	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]