ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50015
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| Date: | Wednesday 20 September 1944 |
| Time: | 19:00 |
| Type: |  Short Stirling Mk IV |
| Owner/operator: | 620 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | LK548 |
| MSN: | QS-Y |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | south of the Meuwelweg road, Vorstenbosch, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Fairford, UK |
There were eight men on board the Short Stirling Bomber aircraft when it left RAF Fairford in England at 14.45pm on 20 September 1944 for another resupply mission to Arnhem. It failed to return and they were listed as missing. Four men were killed in the crash around 7 pm local time near the small Dutch village of Vorstenbosch including:
1. Pilot Officer, Maurice McHugh
2. Wireless Operator - Flight Sergeant, Eric Arthur Bradshaw
3. Rear Gunner- Sergeant, Thomas Vickers
4. Dispatcher - Driver, Ernest Victor Heckford.
Those killed were initially buried in the Nistelrode General Cemetery but were reinterred in a communal grave at the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery after the war in 1949.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4214&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
http://www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/maurice_mchugh.htm
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 01-Apr-2016 16:27 | gerard57 | Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 11-Sep-2019 07:49 | TigerTimon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source] |
| 11-Sep-2019 07:52 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
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