ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 158473
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Date: | Monday 10 April 1944 |
Time: | |
Type: | Supermarine Spitfire Mk XI |
Owner/operator: | 4 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | PA901 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
Location: | Missing around Knocke-Heist, West Flanders -
Belgium
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Gatwick, Sussex |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Delivered to RAF Benson 29-1-44. Issued to 4 Squadron 5-3-44. Written off in combat when went missing (failed to return) from PR mission to Hulst over Noball targets at Knocke-Hult, Belgium 10-4-44. Pilot, F/O Ian Alexander Turnbull posted as Killed In Action. His name is on the Runnymede memorial. Son of John Rutherford Turnbull, M.C., and Dorothy Helena Wellesley Turnbull; husband of Margaret Turnbull, of Glapwell, Derbyshire.
Crew:
F/O (127.222) Ian Alexander TURNBULL (pilot) RAFVR - killed
Sources:
1. Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
2.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p084.html 3.
https://www.cranston-military-prints.com/aircrew-history.php?AircrewID=9731 4.
http://www.gatwickaviationsociety.org.uk/gatwick%20wartime%20history.pdf 5.http: //
www.CWGC Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
18-Aug-2013 04:58 |
JINX |
Added |
17-Dec-2014 18:52 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
02-Mar-2015 19:28 |
Tu144 |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
14-Nov-2022 06:10 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location, Damage] |
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