Date:	Tuesday 11 June 1940
Time:	day
Type:	Fairey Battle Mk I
Owner/operator:	88 Sqn RAF
Registration:	L5519
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Forest of Rosny, near Perdreauville (Seine-et-Oisr), 9 km WSW of Mante -   France
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Moisy, France
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Fairey Battle Mk.I L5519 (RH-R) 88 Squadron, RAF: Written off (destroyed) when lost (Failed To Return) from combat operations over Northern France. Both crew killed. According to the official Air Ministry file into the incident (File AIR 81/870): "Battle L5519 crashed near the forest of Rosny, France, 11 June 1940. Sergeant R C Caldwell and Pilot Officer J D W Gillam: report of deaths"

Airborne from Moisy. Shot down by ground fire and crashed in the forest of Rosny, near Perdreauville (Seine-et-Oisr), 9 km WSW of Mantes, France, with the loss of both crew. (No survivors)

Crew of Battle L5519:
Pilot Officer (Pilot) John Douglas Walker Gillam, RAF 40690, age 21, killed in action 11/06/1940
Sergeant (Observer) Robert Charles. Caldwell, RAF 580434, age 26, killed in action 11/06/1940

Both crew fatalities were buried at Perdreauville Communal Cemetery, Oise, France. The reported crash location of Perdreauville is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France, at approximate Coordinates: 48°57′55″N 1°37′47″E

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-L9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1978)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/70: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502516
3. The Battle File (Sidney Shail, Air Britain, 1997)
4. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2234896/gillam,-john-douglas-walker/
5. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2234895/ROBERT%20CHARLES%20CALDWELL/
6. http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=1104
7. http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/88_squadron.html#1106
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdreauville

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
07-Aug-2008 10:17	Anon.	Added
31-Jan-2012 01:21	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport]
23-Sep-2019 21:34	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Date, Time, Registration, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative]
24-Sep-2019 12:13	stehlik49	Updated [Operator]
29-Oct-2020 00:53	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
29-Oct-2020 00:54	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]