Date:	Tuesday 11 June 1940
Time:	day
Type:	Fairey Battle Mk I
Owner/operator:	142 Sqn RAF
Registration:	L5200
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Bouafles, 6 km SW of Les Andelys, (Eure), 26 km NE of Evreux -   France
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Villiersfaux, France
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Fairey Battle Mk.I L5200 (QT-L) 142 Squadron, RAF: Written off (destroyed) when lost (Failed To Return) from combat operations over Northern France. Of the three crew, two were killed, and one survived to be captured and taken as a PoW. According to the official Air Ministry file into the incident (File AIR 81/877): "Battle L5200 crashed at Bouafles, France, 11 June 1940. Sergeant J H Ledson and Sergeant J N Fraser: report of deaths. Sergeant B W Peryman: prisoner of war"

Airborne from Villiersfaux. Shot down at Bouafles, near Les Andelys, (Eure) south of Rouen by Flak/AAA during attack on pontoon bridges over the Seine at Le Manoir. Two of the three crew were killed, one bailed out, but parachuted down into enemy held territory, and was captured, to be taken PoW

Crew of Battle L5200:
Pilot Officer B.W. Peryman (pilot); survived, bailed out, captured and became a PoW. Interned in PoW Camps 9AH/L3, as PoW No.413
Sergeant (Observer) Jack N. Fraser, RAF 581049, age 19, killed in action 11/06/1940
Sergeant (Wireless Op./Air Gunner) James H. Ledson, RAF 615842, age 21, killed in action 11/06/1940

Both crew fatalities were buried at St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France in a joint grave. The reported crash location of Bouafles is a commune in the Eure department in Normandy in northern France. It is located 6 km south-west of Les Andelys on the river Seine, at approximate Coordinates: 49°12′41″N 1°23′06″E

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-L9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1978)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/877: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502523
3. The Battle File (Sidney Shail, Air Britain, 1997 p 145)
4. http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/142_squadron.html#1106
5. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2095398/fraser,-jack-nairn/
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2095463/ledson,-james-henshall/
7. http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=4370
8. http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showpost.php?p=127362&postcount=27
9. https://www.roll-of-honour.com/Norfolk/Hempnall.html
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouafles

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
07-Aug-2008 10:16	Anon.	Added
06-Jan-2013 15:29	Nepa	Updated [Operator]
24-Sep-2019 18:13	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Date, Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative]
24-Sep-2019 18:14	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
25-Sep-2019 04:11	stehlik49	Updated [Operator]