Date:	Saturday 11 April 1942
Time:	night
Type:	Handley Page Hampden Mk I
Owner/operator:	144 Sqn RAF
Registration:	AT218
MSN:	PL-
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Kühhude, Bad Berleburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF North Luffenham, Rutland
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Operation - Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Probably, the aircraft was damaged by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Kurt Liedke of the III./NJG 2 based at Gilze-Rijen airfield in the Netherlands, who was flying a Ju 88C.

Pilot: 402990 Sgt Henry Charles Weeks RAAF - Hanover War Cemetery 15. G. 9.
Observer: 80283 Plt Off David Huntly Johnson - Hanover War Cemetery 15. G. 10 (NCO:778388 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 07 April, 1942)
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 1325467 Sgt S Rickard PoW Luft 357 Kopernikus. PoW Number 179
Air Gunner: NZ404070 Flt Sgt Maurice Young Kennedy RNZAF - Hanover War Cemetery 15. G. 8.

https://www.derwesten.de//staedte/bad-berleburg/mehr-heimat/Nur-der-Bordfunker-ueberlebte-id2922300.html
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft AA100 - AZ999, published 2000

CWGC
RAAF FATALITIES IN SECOND WORLD WAR AMONG RAAF PERSONNEL SERVING ON ATTACHMENT IN ROYAL AIR FORCE SQUADRONS AND SUPPORT UNITS
RAF Prisoners of War
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

20 March 1940	L4137	144 Sqn RAF	3	Scotter, near Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England		w/o
10 April 1941	X3066	144 Sqn RAF	4	2 km SW of Neeroeteren, Maaseik, Limburg		w/o
17 April 1941	AD761	144 Sqn RAF	3	2 miles ENE of RAF Hemswell, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England		w/o
7 July 1941	AD871	144 Sqn RAF	4	North Sea		mis
31 January 1942	AE359	144 Sqn RAF	1	Aircraft ditched. Survivors spent some 20 hours in their dinghy.		unk
12 February 1942	AT175	144 Sqn RAF	5	North Sea		mis
2 April 1942	AD959	144 Sqn RAF	3	Groß Roscharden, Lastrup, Niedersachsen		w/o
6 April 1942	AT226	144 Sqn RAF	0	Grendon Underwood Bombing Range 10 miles WNW of Aylesbury.		w/o
14 April 1942	AT110	144 Sqn RAF	4	Felpham Sussex		w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
01-May-2010 06:26	Bleiente	Added
03-Jan-2012 03:22	Uli Elch	Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
11-Jun-2017 12:32	Uli Elch	Updated [Location, Narrative]
01-Dec-2017 12:15	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
01-Dec-2017 12:15	Red Dragon	Updated [Operator]
17-Oct-2018 05:53	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator]
28-Oct-2019 13:59	Uli Elch	Updated [Operator, Location, Narrative]
02-Nov-2019 18:57	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]
17-Apr-2020 18:04	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative]
05-Apr-2022 09:15	TigerTimon	Updated [Embed code]
10-Apr-2024 06:55	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]