Date:	Sunday 13 July 1941
Time:	00:55
Type:	Handley Page Hampden Mk I
Owner/operator:	50 Sqn RAF
Registration:	AE226
MSN:	VN-F
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Kortenakkers Vensloot, Groningen prv -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Lindholme, North Yorkshire
Destination airport:	RAF Lindholme, North Yorkshire

Narrative:
Handley Page Hampden Mk.I AE226 (VN-F) of 50 Squadron, RAF. Lost on combat operations on night of 12-13/7/1941. Target: Bremen. AAA/flak reported as heavy and accurate around the target and fighters were very active.

Took off from RAF Lindholme at 22:30 hours on 12/7/1941. Nothing further was heard from this crew after take-off. Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Helmut Lent of the 4./NJG 1, who was flying Bf 110 D-3 G9+FM from Leeuwarden airfield. Crashed 00:55 hours at Kortenakkers Veensloot, 30 km East-South-East of Groningen, Holland. All four crew were later known to have perished. Their burial details would suggest the aircraft crashed on the way to the target.

Crew:
Pilot: Pilot Officer. Edward Douglas Vivian RAF (89071, aged 26) from Johannesburg
Navigator: Sgt. Kenneth John Lord RAF (921757, aged 24) from Surrey
WOp/Air Gunner: Flight Sgt. Jack Guest BEM RAF (525488, aged 24) from Sheffield
Air Gunner: Sgt. I. Jacobavitch RAF (1158295, aged 25 a.k.a. "Sgt. H. Jackson") from West Hampstead, London.

Sgt H. Jackson's true identity was Israel Jacobovitch. He was initially posted as missing under his alias, and his true identity was not established until post war. All the crew are buried in VEENDAMGENERAL CEMETERY, near Groningen, Holland (adjacent the protestant Church in J.G.Pinksterstraat) Jack Guest was awarded the BEM for saving the lives of two pilots when 7 Sqn Heyford bomber K4871 crashed 29.03.38 and caught fire near RAF Finningley.

1. 50 AND 61 SQUADRON ASSOCIATION ROLL OF HONOUR 1939-1945 (Document produced by the Association)
2. 50 Sqn ORB entry for this July 1941 held at the National Archives, Kew at http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8451220
3. W.R. Chorley: Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 90.
4. https://studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/12-13-07-1941-sglo-t1108-handley-page-hampden-mk-i-ae226-vn/
5. http://www.no-50-and-no-61-squadrons-association.co.uk/app/download/5802508903/50+SQUADRON+ORB+1939+1943+Revision+1.pdf
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2649633/vivian,-edward-douglas/
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2649629/lord,-kenneth-john/
8. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2649625/guest,-jack/
9. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2649628/jacobovitch,-israel/
10. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2649627/jackson,-/
11. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?11064-50-Squadron-Hampden-AE-226&styleid=3
12. https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/hampden/25656-AE2261941-07-13.html
13. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneden_Veensloot
14. Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
15. Google Maps 16. Sgt Guest BEM - numerous contemporary media accounts plus LONDON GAZETTE 09.06.1938

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

6 October 1940	P4417	50 Sqn RAF	4	Target: Marshalling Yard, Cologne (Köln), North Rhine-Westphalia		w/o
9 November 1940	X2994	50 Sqn RAF	0	Near RAF West Raynham, near Fakenham, Norfolk		w/o
26 November 1940	X3125	50 Sqn RAF	0	Skidbrook, Saltfleet, near North Coates, Lincolnshire		w/o
Fuel exhaustion

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
20-Sep-2012 13:49	AL TOCOCK	Updated [Source, Narrative]
30-Apr-2016 06:52	Red Dragon	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
24-Jul-2018 23:41	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
12-Nov-2018 20:30	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
10-Jul-2019 16:29	TigerTimon	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative]
26-Jan-2021 19:48	Paul Allonnby	Updated [Source, Narrative]
14-Jun-2022 08:25	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]
14-Jun-2022 09:19	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]
14-Jun-2022 09:21	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]