Date:	Friday 25 September 1942
Time:
Type:	Lockheed Hudson Mk IIIA
Owner/operator:	Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)
Registration:	BW454
MSN:	L-214
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Nova Scotia coast -   Canada
Phase:	Unknown
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:

Narrative:
On 25 September 1942, the Hudson IIIA BW454 of 11 (BR) Sqn RCAF took off at 0545 hrs from RCAF Station Dartmouth for an anisubmarine patrol mission but failed to return. Other aircraft were sent on search for it but without success. The five crew disappeared with it and are commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial.

Crew (all lost at sea):
Flt Lt Arthur Roland Booth (pilot)
Plt Off David Mcgilivray Knowles (observer)
Plt Off Walter Lawrence Junge (observer)
Plt Off Charles Gordon Sawyer (wireless operator/air gunner)
Flt Sgt John Douglas Selig (wireless operator/air gunner)

11 (BR) Sqn RCAF ORB (https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c12240/903?r=0&s=4)
http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=BW454
http://www.rwrwalker.ca/RCAF_BW300_BW600_detailed.html
Ottawa Citizen, 29 September 1942, page 8 (https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=QBJtjoHflPwC&dat=19420929&printsec=frontpage&hl=fr)

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

11 November 1942

BW457

31 OTU RAF

0

Cobequid Bay, NS

w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
30-Jan-2018 22:18	TB	Added
26-Sep-2021 19:18	Laurent Rizzotti	Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Source, Narrative]