ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 53395
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| Date: | Monday 12 May 1941 |
| Time: | 02:57 LT |
| Type: | Handley Page Hampden Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 144 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | AD900 |
| MSN: | PL-H |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Streekweg Hoogkarspel, Noord-Holland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Hemswell, Lincolnshire |
| RAF Hemswell, Lincolnshire |
Handley Page Hampden Mk.I AD900 (PL-H) of 144 Squadron, RAF. Lost on combat operations on the night of 11-12/5/1941. Took off from RAF Hemswell on the evening of 11/5/1941. Target: Bremen. Shot down by Bf 110 night fighter (piloted by Oblt Helmut Woltersdorf II./NJG1) and crashed at 02:57 hours on the night of 12/5/1941 at Streekweg Hoogkarspel, Noord Holland, 6 km WSW of Enkhuisen, at approximate co ordinates 52°41′41″N 5°10′40″E.
It was Woltersdorf's ninth claimed "kill". Of the crew of four, two were killed, two survived to be captured and taken as PoWs.
Crew
Pilot: Flight Lt. Colin Guy Champion Rawlins DFC RAF (72510) - Survived, captured, taken as POW
Navigator: Pilot Officer R.F.J. Featherstone RCAF - Survived, captured, taken as POW
WOp/Air Gunner: Sgt.Stanley Alabert Taylor RAF (942851) - KIA
Air Gunner: Pilot Officer Reginald Herbert Vaughan RAF (78770) - KIA
The two airmen who died are buried in Bergen General Cemetery, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. One of the survivors, was the Pilot, Acting Squadron Leader Colin Guy Champion Rawlins (5 June 1919—23 October 2003) was wounded and captured as a result of a broken ankle sustained in a low parachute jump. For three months he was laid up in a German naval hospital at Alkmaar, in Holland. He then spent the rest of the war in various German prisoner-of-war camps, including Stalag Luft III.
Sources:
1. W.R. Chorley: Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 56.
2. http://www.nimh.nl/nl/images/1941%20sec_tcm5-7282.pdf
3. http://johndhb.me.uk/ftreebiogs/wardead/wardead31.htm
4. Picture of wreckage: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ww2images/6902933713
5. https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2015/10/08/helmut-woltersdorf/
6. http://www.beeldbankbergen.nl/cgi-bin/wargraves.pl?ident=0203&search=VELD%20title%20Taylor&inword=2&display=list&istart=1
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2619941/taylor,-stanley-albert/
8. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2619946/vaughan,-reginald-herbert/
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoogkarspel
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 15 January 1942 | AE441 | 144 Sqn RAF | 0 | Field Dalling, North of RAF Langham, Norfolk |  |
w/o |
| 24 February 1942 | X2969 | 144 Sqn RAF | 4 | North Sea N of Terschelling, Friesland | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 06-Apr-2016 18:25 | Red Dragon | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Oct-2017 07:29 | Nepa | Updated [Operator] |
| 24-Jul-2018 18:11 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 24-Jul-2018 18:12 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 17-Oct-2018 05:38 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 21-Jun-2022 10:15 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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