ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 52449
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| Date: | Friday 27 November 1942 |
| Time: | 02:00 |
| Type: |  Vickers Wellington Mk IC |
| Owner/operator: | 20 OTU RAF |
| Registration: | T2722 |
| MSN: | JM-K |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Spey Bay near Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | RAF Lossiemouth |
During the night of 26-27 November 1942 the Wellington IC T2722 JM-K of B Flight, 20 OTU RAF took off from Lossiemouth for a night exercise but did not return. Reportedly, it ditched due to engine failure circa 0200 hrs on the 27th in Spey Bay, east of the airfield. There was no survivor.
Crew (all lost):
Flt Sgt John Christopher Binge (pilot)
Sgt Philip Stanley Sutton (pilot)
Sgt Bernard Lowery (navigator/air bomber)
Plt Off John Bluck (air bomber)
Sgt Laurence Elgar Harrison (wireless operator/air gunner)
Sgt Thomas Francis Blythe
Sgt Henry Clasper Ballinger RCAF
In the following weeks, five bodies were recovered. One (Sutton) washed up at Vlieland on March 11, 1943 and now rests in Vlieland General Cemetery. The other were found on the British coast. Lowery, Bluck and Harrison are buried in Lossiemouth Burial Ground while Binge was taken to Blidworth (St. Mary of The Purification and St. Lawrence) Churchyard. The two other, Blythe and Ballinger, are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
Sources:
"Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses, volume 7: Operational Training Units 1940-1947", by W R Chorley, ISBN 1-85780-132-6
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1919A&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
http://cpvanderlaan.nl/vlieland_40-45/people.php?person=00030
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=57.672500&lon=-3.086667&z=11
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 27-Nov-2015 11:00 | Laurent Rizzotti | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 25-Nov-2017 15:40 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 25-Nov-2017 15:41 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
| 04-Nov-2020 11:24 | TigerTimon | Updated [Cn, Other fatalities, Location] |
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