ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 229335
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| Date: | Thursday 13 June 1940 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Hawker Hurricane Mk 1 |
| Owner/operator: | 73 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | P2803 |
| MSN: | TP-K |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Chateau-Renault, near Ruaudin, SE of Le Mans, Sarthe -
 France
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Le Mans, Serthe, France |
| Ruaudin, SE of Le Mans, Sarthe |
Hawker Hurricane Mk.I P2803 (TP-K) 73 Squadron, RAF: Written off (destroyed) when crashed on landing at the end of a combat air patrol on 14 June 1940. Pilot killed. According to the official Air Ministry file into the incident (File AIR 81/891): "Hurricane T2803 [*sic] crashed at Chateau-Renault, France, 14 June 1940. Pilot Officer D N W L Anthony: report of death"
Airborne from Le Mans, Sarthe, France, for a combat air patrol. Crashed on landing at Chateau-Renault, near Ruaudin on June 13, 1940, and pilot was badly injured. Pilot, P/O Anthony died the following day of injuries sustained.
Crew of Hurricane P2803:
Pilot Officer (Pilot) David Nigel Wynnard Lloyd Anthony, RAF 40655, killed in action 14/06/1940, buried at Chateau Renault Communal Cemetery, Indre-et-Loire, France
The reported crash location of Château-Renault is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France, at Coordinates: 47°35′32″N 0°54′37″E.
Note that the official Air Ministry file AIR 81/891 is incorrect: The serial "T2803" is in error for "P2803". The only Hawker Hurricanes allocated "T" serials were 20 airframes (T9519 to T9538) built by the Canadian Car & Foundry between September 1940 and January 1941. Serial T2803 was allocated to a Vickers Wellington Ic of 99 Squadron, RAF, which was lost when it crashed off Thorney Island, Hampshire on 19 December 1940.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft P1000-P9999 (James j Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 16)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/891: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502593
3. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2695266/anthony,-david-nigel-wynnard-lloyd/
4. http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=702
5. http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/73_squadron.html#14a06
6. http://www.inmemories.com/Cemeteries/chateaurenault.htm
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau-Renault
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 22 December 1939 | L1967 | 73 Sqn RAF | 1 | near Altroff, Bettelainville, 2 km NE of Metz, Moselle 57 | |
w/o |
| 15 May 1940 | P3278 | 73 Sqn RAF | 0 | West of Vouzières, Ardennes | |
w/o |
| 2 June 1940 | P2700 | 73 Sqn RAF | 1 | North east of Proviseux-et-Plesnoy, 20 km North of Reims | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Sep-2019 22:18 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 26-Sep-2019 11:32 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator] |
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