Date:	Friday 13 October 1939
Time:	day
Type:	Fairey Battle Mk I
Owner/operator:	1 AAS RAF
Registration:	K7593
MSN:	F.2352
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Theddlethorpe ranges, near Grimsby, East Lindsay, Lincolnshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Manby, Licolnshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Fairey Battle Mk.I K7593, 1 AAS (Air Armament School), RAF Manby: Written off (destroyed) 13/10/39 when engine failed, and aircraft stalled & crashed on an air to ground firing sortie over the Theddlethorpe ranges, near Grimsby, East Lindsay, Lincolnshire. All three crew killed:

Sgt William Elijah Levitt (Service Number 741280, aged 21) killed
AC.2 Harold Stewart Melvin (Service Number 804282, aged 20) killed
AC.2 Jack Warry (Service Number 804336, aged 20) killed

Battle K7593 was Struck off charge as Cat.E(FA) on 29 October 1939

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1976 page 62)
2. The Battle File (Sidney Shail, Air Britain, 1997 p 126)
3. National Archvies (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/1579: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16359495
4. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1939a.htm
5. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2651696/levitt,-william-elijah/
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2810999/melvin,-harold-stewart/
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2432469/warry,-jack/
8. http://www.bcar.org.uk/1939-incident-logs
9. http://www.histonroadcemetery.org/graves/WW2/WELevitt.html
10. http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Cambridgeshire/CambridgeStLukes.html
11. https://35squadron.wordpress.com/2018/02/13/fairey-battle/

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

11 December 1937

K7594

226 Sqn RAF

2

near Chesil Bank, Dorset, England

w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
23-Apr-2018 18:32	Dr. John Smith	Added
23-Nov-2018 20:27	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
26-Jun-2019 00:01	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative]
30-Jun-2019 10:31	stehlik49	Updated [Operator]
30-Oct-2020 00:28	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative]
30-Oct-2020 09:09	T.T.Taylor	Updated [Operator, Operator]