Date:	Tuesday 21 May 1940
Time:	08:00 LT
Type:	Westland Lysander Mk II
Owner/operator:	4 Sqn RAF
Registration:	N1298
MSN:	TV-L
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Bruyelle, S of Tournai, Hainaut -   Belgium
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Lille-Ronchin, France
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Weatland Lysander Mk.II N1298 (TV-L) 4 Squadron RAF: Written off (presumed destroyed) when lost (failed to return) from a Reconnaissance operation over Belgium 21 May 1940. Both crew killed. According to the official Air Ministry file into the incident (File AIR 81/635): "Lysander N1298 shot down over Rumes, Belgium, 21 May 1940. Pilot Officer P McL Peace and Corporal R A Tamblin: report of deaths".

Belonged to B Flight, 4 Squadron, RAF. Based at Lille-Ronchin. Believed shot down and the aircraft was that claimed by Lt Lohoff of 3./JG 77. Crashed at Bruyelle, south of Tournai (Doornik), Hainaut, at 08.00 hrs. As stated above, both crew killed.

Crew of Lysander N1298:
Pilot Officer Peter McLeod Peace (pilot), RAF 41731, killed in action 21/05/1940
Corporal (Air Gunner) Reginald A. Tamblin, RAF 515204, killed in action 21/05/1940

Both crew fatalities were buried at Bruyelle War Cemetery, Hainault, Belgium. The official crash location for Lysander N1298 is Rumes, a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut, at approximate Coordinates: 50°33′N 03°18′E. The unofficial crash location for this aircraft is Bruyelle, south of Tournai (Doornik) a Walloon municipality of Belgium located in the province of Hainaut at approximate Coordinates: 50°34′N 03°27′E. The two locations are some 15 km apart, along route N508.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft N1000-N9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1977 p 7)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/635): https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502056
3. Peter D. Cornwell, The Battle of France, Then and Now, 2008
4. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2253890/peace,-peter-mcleod/
5. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2253912/tamblin,-reginald-augustus/
6. http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/4_squadron.html
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumes
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoing
9. http://www.belgians-remember-them.eu/crash-hai-bruy.php
10. http://il-etait-une-fois-rumes.wifeo.com/lysander-rumes-21-051940.php
11. https://halifaxjd371kno.com/index.php/rumes-lysander-n1298-4-squadron/

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
19-Jun-2011 12:20	ThW	Added
19-Jun-2013 10:47	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative]
24-Aug-2019 21:55	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
24-Aug-2019 22:13	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
08-Nov-2022 22:49	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]