ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 351452
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| Date: | Monday 9 December 1940 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Lockheed Hudson Mk1 |
| Owner/operator: | 224 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | N7265 |
| MSN: | QX-J |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
| Location: | Believed to be at sea off Stavanger/Kristiansand, Norway -
 Norway
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Leuchars, Scotland |
| RAF Leuchars, Scotland |
Standing Patrol – took off 10:35 from Leuchars, Scotland. Failed to return.
Air Ministry Casualty Communiqué No.55 published 2nd January 1941 in “Flight” magazine.
The German Claims Archives are fragmented and incomplete; however some references are made to claims in the unit archives of III/ZG76.
A reference is made to a "wirklich beschossen (well damaged)" of a Hudson by an un-named crew on this date. As the only two Hudsons in the area to be lost were both on Stand Patrol and took off within 5 minutes of each other it can be surmised that the aircraft was either T9277 or N7265.
The ZG denotes that the unit was a "Destroyer" unit flying Bf110 the staffels were detached to various aerodromes in Norway and the particular aircraft could have taken off from either Sola or Stavanger but without any unit records this is difficult to prove as is to state the aircraft Werk Num. or crew. (Source: Ross McNeill)
There is also information to suggest that an aircraft from 269 Squadron carried out a search for the missing Hudson(s).
Crew: All missing, presumed killed.
Pilot: F/O Gordon James Masterton Dewar 41385 R.A.F. Age.20 missing. Son of John G.N. and Winifred M Dewar, of Haywards Heath, Sussex.
Observer: P/O Anthony Bilderbeck 33535 R.A.F. Age.20 missing. Born 22nd November 1920, London
Son of Col. Alured C.L.O’S. Bilderbeck, I.M.S. and J.Christine Bilderbeck of Bexhill-on-sea, Sussex.
Wireless Op?: Sgt. Gordon Bell 33535 R.A.F. Age.19 missing. Son of John and Elizabeth G. Bell, of Birkenshaw, Yorkshire.
Air Gunner?: Sgt. Walter Edward Woolley 755114 R.A.F.V.R. Age.26 missing
Burial details: None. Commemorated Runnymead Panels 5, 7, 11 and 21 respectively.
Sources:
1. 224 Squadron Logbook.
2. AIR 81/4507 - https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C 16688605
3. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/232170/gordon-james-masterton-dewar/
4. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1529795/anthony-bilderbeck/
5. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1083730/gordon-bell/
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1532090/walter-edward-woolley/
7. German Claims Archives.
8. Personal correspondance: Ross McNeill.
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 04-Feb-2024 18:47 | VinceM | Added |
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