Date:	Tuesday 21 November 1944
Time:	19:11 LT
Type:	Handley Page Halifax Mk VII
Owner/operator:	408 (Goose) Sqn RCAF
Registration:	NP810
MSN:	EQ-H
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Hochdahl - Trills, at Erkrath, Nordrhein-Westfalen -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off at 15:20 hrs for an operation against the oil plant at Castrop-Rauxel.

The aircraft was shot down by Hauptmann Fritz Lau of the 4./NJG 1, who had taken off from Düsseldorf airfield in Bf 110 G-4 G9+AM.

Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Lieutenant Albert Edward Steeves RCAF J/8658 [PoW]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Herbert Edgar Clark RAFVR 2218400 [Killed]
Navigator : Flying Officer Adelbert Bateman Rowley RCAF J/40054 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flying Officer Lloyd William Frizzell RCAF J/39376 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Pilot Officer Edmond Kenneth Wilson RCAF J/92645 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant James Alexander McPhee RCAF R/220193 [PoW]
Rear Gunner : Pilot Officer Louis Basarab RCAF J/95202 [Killed]

Those who perished rest in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery:

http://www.wz.de/lokales/kreis-mettmann/erkrath/halifax-absturz-1944-verwandte-eines-kriegsopfers-besuchen-erkrath-1.950078
Boller, Thomas; Eggerath, Hanna
"Der alte Flugmotor von Hochdahl-Trills"
Die Geschichte der Halifax NP810 - EQ-H
SUTTON VERLAG 2007
ISBN: 3-86680-166-1
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part five
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=NP810&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
08-Jan-2014 15:30	gerard57	Added
09-Sep-2021 09:53	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
09-Sep-2021 09:53	TigerTimon	Updated [Operator]
03-Apr-2024 12:07	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]
03-Apr-2024 12:08	Rob Davis	Updated [Narrative]