ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 49736
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| Date: | Wednesday 11 October 1944 |
| Time: | afternoon |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 101 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | LL771 |
| MSN: | SR-Y |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Heille hamlet, Sluis, Zeeland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Ludford Magna, UK |
Crashed during raid on Breskens (NL). Takeoff was at 15:15 hrs.
All eight are buried at the Adegem Canadian War Cemetery in Belgium:
Pilot S/Ldr. G.D. Matthews 47719 RAF
Flight Engineer Sgt. R.J. Doughty 1802798 RAF
Navigator P/O. G.S. Lambert 152790 RAF
Bomb Aimer F/Sgt. C.J. Thorne 186295 RAF
Special Operator F/O. W.H. Escritt 154961 RAF
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner F/Sgt. J.H.H. Springgay 185460 RAF
Air Gunner Sgt. E.R. Dunford 1608657 RAF
Air Gunner F/Sgt. A. Redmayne 1866972 RAF
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4520&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 26 June 1943 | LM318 | 101 Sqn RAF | 7 | southeast of Lüdinghausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen |  |
w/o |
| 24 August 1943 | EE192 | 101 Sqn RAF | 7 | North Sea, off Dutch coast | |
mis |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 27-Dec-2011 06:27 | Uli Elch | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Dec-2011 14:38 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 05-Oct-2019 14:30 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
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