Date:	Friday 25 October 1940
Time:	day
Type:	Fairey Battle Mk I (TT)
Owner/operator:	9 B&GS RAF
Registration:	V1228
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Penrhos, Pen-y-Berth, Gwynedd, Wales -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Penrhos, Pen-y-Berth, Gwynedd
Destination airport:	RAF Penrhos, Pen-y-Berth, Gwynedd

Narrative:
Fairey Battle Mk.1(TT) V1228, 9 B&GS (Bombing & Gunnery School), RAF Penrhos, Pen-y-Berth, Gwynedd. Delivered 22 August 1940. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 25 October 1940 when stalled while dropping target drogue on airfield for examination, RAF Penrhos, Pen-y-Berth, Gwynedd, and flew into "Prang Ridge" - a 100 foot ridge at the end of the runway (at approximate location: 52°52′47.86″ N, 4°28′40.44″) on the north side of RAF Penrhos. All three crew killed

Crew of Battle V1228:
Pilot Officer (P/0539) Tadeusz Dabrowski (Polish)(Pilot, aged 25) - killed on active service 25/10/1940, buried at Pwllheli Borough Cemetery, Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire, Wales
Sergeant (P/782759) Ladtslaw Ustyanowski (Polish)(Target Drogue Winch Operator, aged 36) - killed on active service 25/10/1940 buried at Pwllheli Borough Cemetery, Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire, Wales
Aircraftman (639059) Emrys Evans RAF (Wireless Op/Air Gunner, aged 19) - killed on active service 25/10/1940, buried at St.Marys Churchyard, Great Bardfield, Essex.

1. The Battle File (Sidney Shail, Air Britain, 1997 p.179)
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft V1000-V9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1979 p.37)
3. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/3923: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16688021
4. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/7503349/TADEUSZ%20DABROWSKI/
5. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/7504472/LADYSLAW%20USTJANOWSKI/
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2721774/EMRYS%20EVANS/
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Penrhos

"Prang Ridge" RAF Penrhos, Pen-y-Berth, Gwynedd, crash site of Battle V1228, photographed on 19 December 2007:

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
27-Oct-2020 21:48	Dr. John Smith	Added
28-Oct-2020 15:24	T.T.Taylor	Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Embed code, Operator]