Date:	Wednesday 29 April 1942
Time:	02:28-43
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk II
Owner/operator:	12 Sqn RAF
Registration:	Z8342
MSN:	PH-Z
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Kieler Aussenförde -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Binbrook
Destination airport:	operation - Kiel

Narrative:
Crashed in target area. The crew were initially buried in the local Naval Garrison Cemetery. After the war they were re-interred in Kiel War Cemetery.

Crew
Pilot: 1178776 Sgt Norman Spray - Kiel War Cemetery 1. D. 3.
Pilot: 404865 Sgt Robert George Gordon RAAF - Kiel War Cemetery 1. D. 5.
Observer:928689 Sgt Alan Robertson Holmes - Kiel War Cemetery 1. D. 4.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 1016825 Sgt Colin Black Climie - Kiel War Cemetery Joint grave 1. D. 6-7.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 1186623 Sgt Walter Laurence Munns - Kiel War Cemetery Joint grave 1. D. 6-7.
Air Gunner: 939428 Sgt William Lloyd Huxley - Kiel War Cemetery 1. D. 2.

RAAF FATALITIES IN SECOND WORLD WAR AMONG RAAF PERSONNEL SERVING ON ATTACHMENT IN ROYAL AIR FORCE SQUADRONS AND SUPPORT UNITS.
CWGC
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28 August 1942

Z8403

12 Sqn RAF

5

North Sea 45 km NW of Den Haag, Zuid-Holland

w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
15-Dec-2017 18:06	Red Dragon	Added
19-Oct-2018 14:13	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator]
27-Apr-2022 18:55	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]