Date:	Wednesday 8 April 1942
Time:	day
Type:	De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	Abingdon SF RAF
Registration:	N6857
MSN:	82112
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Pound Copse, Gare Hill, NE of Bruton, near Frome, Somerset -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Abingdon, Oxfordshire (EGUD)
Destination airport:

Narrative:
De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 82112 (Gipsy Major #81040); Taken on charge as N6857 at 10 MU RAF Hullavington, Chippenham, Wiltshire 31.5.39. To RAF Norwich, Norfolk 30.9.40. To RAF Manby, Lincolnshire 16.12.40. Returned to 10 MU RAF Hullavington, Wiltshire 24.4.41. To RAF Abingdon Station Flight, Abingdon, Oxfordshire 21.6.41.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) when hit trees low while flying at Pound Copse, Gare Hill, North East of Bruton, near Frome, Somerset 8.4.42. Of the two crew, one as killed, one was injured:

Pilot Officer (47659) John Charles JONES (Pilot) RAF - killed in active service 8.4.42 (NCO:565077 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 10 February, 1942)
Flight Lieutenant A S Johnson (Passenger) - survived but injured

Struck off charge 18.4.42 as FACE (Flying Accident Cat.E)

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft N1000-N9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1977 p.42)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR81/13261: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C17205898
3. CWGC: https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2713122/john-charles-jones/
4. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p821.html
6. http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=N6857
7. https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/112451/
8. http://www.rafweb.org/Members%20Pages/Casualties/1940s/1942/Casualties_1942_04-3.htm
9. http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AircrewDeaths39-47/?s=7000&q=redman,%20walter%20george&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_type=&search_only=&o=Name
10. http://wikimapia.org/2141982/Gare-Hill
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruton
12. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
19-Mar-2022 21:22	Dr. John Smith	Added
19-Mar-2022 21:28	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Category]
19-Mar-2022 21:31	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
03-Apr-2022 10:43	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Narrative, Operator]
08-Apr-2024 06:38	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]