Date:	Friday 31 May 1940
Time:
Type:	Hawker Hurricane Mk I
Owner/operator:	242 ("All Canadian") Sqn RAF
Registration:	P2732
MSN:	LE-R
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	English Channel, off Dover, Kent, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Biggin Hill, Bromley, Kent
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Hawker Hurricane P2732/R": Written off (destroyed) 31/05/1940 in Combat over the English Channel off Dover, Kent. Shot down by Bf 109. According to the official Air Ministry file on the incident (File AIR 81/720):
"Pilot Officer G M Stewart: missing presumed dead; Hurricane P2732 in air operations over Dunkirk, France, 31/05/1940
Crew:
P/O (41625) Gordon MacKenzie Stewart (pilot) RAF - missing, presumed killed

NOTE: Some sources give the date of combat as 1.6.40 (=next day). The aircraft involved was Hurricane P2732, and not, as some unofficial published reports state, L2004. (Hurricane L2004 was shot down at Corroy-le-Grand, Belgium, 15 May 1940 - two weeks earlier).

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft P1000-P9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 16)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File Air 81/720: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502497
3. Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War Volume 1 Norman L R Franks p 37
4. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1808005/stewart,-gordon-mckenzie/
5. https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1808005
6. https://canadianfallen.ca/68318/STEWART
7. http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/242_squadron.html#3105

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28 May 1940

N2651

242 ("All Canadian") Sqn RAF

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
06-Mar-2008 22:43	JINX	Added
04-Jan-2012 14:33	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Phase]
29-May-2013 13:54	Nepa	Updated [Operator]
11-Mar-2016 15:53	Red Dragon	Updated [Registration, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
22-Apr-2019 20:03	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Date, Time, Registration, Location, Country, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
16-Jul-2019 20:25	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Registration, Cn, Source, Narrative]
16-Jul-2019 20:27	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
16-Jul-2019 20:28	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
02-Sep-2019 23:16	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative]
13-Apr-2020 15:09	Investig	Updated [Operator, Operator]