Date:	Monday 26 January 1942
Time:	05:40 LT
Type:	Handley Page Hampden Mk I
Owner/operator:	14 OTU RAF
Registration:	P1186
MSN:	GL-R
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	1 mile North of Pinchbeck, Spalding, Lincolnshire. -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Cottesmore, Oakham, Rutland
Destination airport:	RAF Cottesmore, Oakham, Rutland

Narrative:
During the night of 25/26 January 1942 Hampden Mk.I P1186 of 14 OTU RAF took off RAF Cottesmore for a night high level bombing exercise on the Holbeach Ranges. For reasons that could not be determined, the aircraft dived at 05:40 hours into the ground less than a mile north of Pinchbeck, 2 miles north from Spalding in Lincolnshire. All four of the crew (one Canadians, three Australian) were killed:

Crew (all killed):
J/6801: Pilot Officer Joseph Mitchell Marok RCAF (pilot)
402526: Pilot Officer Walter Hugh Lynch RAAF (observer, aged 26)
404742: Pilot Officer Sydney Stanley White RAAF (observer, aged 27)
405468: Sgt Edward O’Connell RAAF (wireless operator/air gunner, aged 27)

All four were buried at Cottesmore (St. Nicholas Churchyard Extension) Cottesmore, Rutland

1. Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses, volume 7: Operational Training Units 1940-1947", by W R Chorley, ISBN 1-85780-132-6
2. http://www.bcar.org.uk/1942-incident-logs#jan
3. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P10322620
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinchbeck,_Lincolnshire
5. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2922162/marok,-joseph-mitchell/
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2922157/lynch,-walter-hugh/
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2922198/white,-sydney-stanley/
8. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2922169/o'connell,-edward/
9. http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2922162
10. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95004017/joseph-mitchell-marok
11. https://www.facebook.com/223714254314847/posts/training:-26th-january-1942-cottesmore/1448217021864558/
12. http://canadianfallen.ca/72642/MAROK
13. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P10317673
14. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P10321138

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

30 October 1941	P1294	14 OTU RAF	4	White Lion Crossroads, Llynclys Hill, near Oswestry, Shropshire		w/o
Collision with pole or wires

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
09-Jul-2013 05:25	JINX	Added
06-Jun-2015 10:44	Pipine	Updated [Operator, Nature]
27-Jan-2016 08:06	Laurent Rizzotti	Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
03-Nov-2017 16:20	Red Dragon	Updated [Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Destination airport]
20-Feb-2018 16:51	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport]
11-Aug-2018 17:16	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
11-Aug-2018 17:18	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
11-Aug-2018 17:23	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Source]