ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 276759
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Date: | Sunday 10 May 1942 |
Time: | day |
Type: | De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth |
Owner/operator: | 102 (G) OTU RAF |
Registration: | DE304 |
MSN: | 85338 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | High Cogges Farm, Witney, Oxfordshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | High Cogges Farm, Witney, Oxfordshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Kidlington, Oxfordshire |
Narrative:De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 85338; Taken on charge as DE304 at 10 MU RAF Hullavington, Chippenhem, Wiltshire 9.1.42. To 102 (Glider) OTU, RAF Kidlington, Oxfordshire 23.3.42.
Written off (destroyed) when crashed on take off from a field at High Cogges Farm, Witney, Oxfordshire 10.5.42; some published sources state that the aircraft stalled, and that a wing hit the ground, causing the aircraft to overturn. Both crew killed.
Crew of Tiger Moth DE304:
Sergeant Elwood Lincoln Joseph COLEMAN RCAF (Service Number R/75449 Pilot, aged 23)
Flight Sergeant Frederick George WILLIAMS RCAF (Service Number R/77474 Pilot, aged 20)
Both crew were buried at St. Mary's Churchyard, Black Bourton, Oxfordshire
Struck off charge 15.5.42 as FACE (Flying Accident Cat.E). Cogges is an area beside the River Windrush in Witney, Oxfordshire, 0.5 miles (800 metres) east of the town centre. It had been a separate village and until 1932 it was a separate civil parish
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft DA100-DZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1987 p.13)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR81/14206:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C17206843 3. CWGC:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2421395/elwood-lincoln-joseph-coleman/ 4. CWGC:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2421416/frederick-george-williams/ 5.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf 6.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p853.html 7.
http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=DE304 8.
https://www.bombercommandmuseumarchives.ca/canadaairwar/canadaairwar1942.pdf 9.
https://www.rcafassociation.ca/heritage/history/fallen-aviators/rcaf-casualties-second-world-war/climenhage-to-coltman/ 10.
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2421416 11.
https://canadianfallen.ca/73894/COLEMAN 12.
https://canadianfallen.ca/73902/WILLIAMS 13.
http://blackbourton.yolasite.com/ww2-graves.php 14.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogges_Manor_Farm 15.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogges Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
22-Mar-2022 03:21 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
22-Mar-2022 19:28 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Operator] |
22-Mar-2022 22:54 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
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