Date:	Saturday 18 May 1940
Time:	15:30 LT
Type:	Hawker Hurricane Mk 1
Owner/operator:	1 Sqn RAF
Registration:	L1856
MSN:	JX-H
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	St. Quentin, Aisne, Hauts de France -   France
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Berry-au-Bac, France
Destination airport:	Anglure, France

Narrative:
Hawker Hurricane Mk.I L1856 (JX-H) 1 Squadron, RAF: Written off (destroyed) when lost (Failed To Return) from combat operations over France. Pilot survived, bailed out, but was captured and taken as a PoW. According to the official Air Minstry file into the incident (File AIR 81/794): "Hurricane lost in air operations, 18 May 1940. Sergeant R A Albonico: prisoner of war"

Airborne from Berry-au-Bac, France for a combat air patrol over St. Quentin, Aisne, Hauts de France. Shot down by ground fire (Flak/AAA) at 15:30 hours. Pilot survived, bailed out, but was captured and taken as a PoW.

Crew of Hurricane L1856:
Sergeant Rene A. Albonico (pilot, RAF 515773) - bailed out, survived, captured, taken as a PoW; interned in PoW Camp 357 at Kopernikus as PoW No.52561.

Sgt Rene A Albonico (born Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey in 1912) survived WWII, and died in February 1987, aged 75

Note that the serial number of the Hurricane involved is not stated on the official File AIR 81/794. Unofficial sources give the serial number of the Hurricane involved as "L1865". However, Hurricane L1865 was shot down by a Bf 109 over Dover, Kent on 24 August 1940. Which seems to confirm that the Hurricane involved was Indeed L1856 (the "last two digits" having been transposed in unofficial reports).

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-L9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1978)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/794: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502465
3. Norman L.R. Franks, Fighter Command Losses, Vol 1, 1939-1941, Second edition, Midland, 2008
4. School of Aces: The RAF Training School that Won the Battle of Britain By Alastair Goodrum
5. http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=5455
6. http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/1_squadron.html#1805
7. https://me.me/i/db-sergeant-pilots-frederick-george-berry-and-rene-attilio-albonico-3457166
8. https://www.facebook.com/274360339567489/photos/sergeant-pilots-frederick-george-berry-and-rene-attilio-albonico-both-of-no-1-sq/337534336583422/
9. http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showpost.php?p=123933&postcount=2

Sergeant Pilots G F Berry and R A Albonico of No. 1 Squadron RAF, outside the church at Neuville-sur-Ornain. Albonico was shot down and captured on 18 May 1940, but Berry served with the Squadron throughout the Battles of France and Britain, before being killed in action on 2 September 1940:

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