ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 229113
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| Date: | Sunday 9 June 1940 |
| Time: | 12:00 |
| Type: |  Bristol Blenheim Mk IV |
| Owner/operator: | 107 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | R3739 |
| MSN: | OM-T |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Forêt de Boray, near Poix-de-Picardie, Somme, Hauts-de-France. -
 France
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Wattisham, Suffolk |
| RAF Wattisham |
Blenheim R3739/T: Written off (destroyed) when lost (Failed To Return) from combat operations over Northern France. Of the three crew, one was killed, and two survived, but were captured and taken as PoWs. According to the official Air Ministry file into the incident (File AIR 81/832): "Blenheim R3739 crashed near Poix-de-Picardie, France, 9 June 1940. Flying Officer C Y Buckley and Sergeant E H B Cotton: prisoners of war. Pilot Officer C Campbell: report of death"
Airborne at 10:45hrs from RAF Wattisham, to bomb enemy armoured columns reported in the Forêt de Boray, near Poix-de-Picardie. Shot down by Flak/AAA, probably over the target area, although one published source gives the crash location as "Freme de Quesnoy, 2.5 km SW of Dameraucourt, 4 km NW of Grandvilliers. One of the three crew was killed, the other two survived, but bailed out behind enemy lines and were captured, and taken as PoWs.
Crew:
F/O (39629) Cyril Yule BUCKLEY (Pilot) RAF ; bailed out /PoW.
P/O (78450) Colin CAMPBELL (Obs.) RAFVR killed
Sgt (627819) Evelyn Hugh Blakeborough COTTON (WOp/AG) RAF bailed out /PoW
Blenheim R3739 was one of three 107 Squadron Blenheims lost in the Poix-de-Picardie area during the attack on enemy armoured columns in the Forêt de Boray on this day (the others were L9323 and R3685)
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft R1000-R9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1980 p 24)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/832: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502555
3. http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/107_squadron.html#0906
4. http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=3842
5. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2095347/campbell,-colin/ .
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 30 June 1940 | L9467 | 107 Sqn RAF | 0 | near Herbelles, 9 km south of St. Omer. Pas de Calais. | |
w/o |
| 10 July 1940 | R3815 | 107 Sqn RAF | 3 | Glisy, Amiens, Somme department, Picardy region. | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 18-Sep-2019 19:28 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 18-Sep-2019 19:39 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 24-Sep-2019 12:11 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator] |
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