Date:	Saturday 28 March 1942
Time:	23:08 claim
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk III
Owner/operator:	115 Sqn RAF
Registration:	X3341
MSN:	KO-W
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	woods at Klecken, Rosengarten, Niedersachsen -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Marham, Norfolk
Destination airport:

Narrative:
*A Missing Research & Enquiry team reported “ the aircraft crashed in a wood at Klecken, 2 miles south west of Hamburg.”All he crew were killed and they are buried in the Becklingen War cemetery, Locality Soltau Niedersachsen, Germany. The cemetery is 13kms south east of Soltau on the side of the road from Hamburg to Hanover.

Crew
Pilot: 404518 Plt Off John Allan Weller RAAF - Becklingen War Cemetery Coll. grave 13. D. 1-4.
2nd Pilot: 1377131 Sgt William Ballard - Becklingen War Cemetery Coll. grave 13. D. 1-4.
Observer: 402517 Fg Off James Brian Maher RAAF - Becklingen War Cemetery Coll. grave 13. D. 1-4.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 1283153 Sgt Edward Bolton Lawrence - Becklingen War Cemetery Coll. grave 13. D. 1-4.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 1258955 Sgt Herbert Lloyd Suckling - Becklingen War Cemetery Coll. grave 13. D. 1-4.
Air Gunner: 619929 Sgt Patrick Wilson - Becklingen War Cemetery Coll. grave 13. D. 1-4.

*RAAF FATALITIES IN SECOND WORLD WAR AMONG RAAF PERSONNEL SERVING ON ATTACHMENT IN ROYAL AIR FORCE SQUADRONS AND SUPPORT UNITS
CWGC
Bomber Command Losses 1942
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

14 July 1941	R1502	115 Sqn RAF	1	between Abbekerk and Onderdijk (Wervershoof), Noord-Holland		w/o
22 November 1942	BJ842	115 Sqn RAF	2	Signy-Signets, Seine-et-Marne département		w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
25-Nov-2017 17:34	Red Dragon	Added
28-Oct-2018 16:48	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator]
16-Apr-2020 13:16	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source]