Date:	Tuesday 7 November 1939
Time:	night
Type:	Fairey Battle Mk I
Owner/operator:	98 Sqn RAF
Registration:	K9238
MSN:	F.2827
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Stow-on-The-Wold, Gloucestershire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Cranfield, Bedfordshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Fairey Battle Mk.I K9238, 98 Squadron ("VD-T") RAF Hucknall: Written off (destroyed) 7/11/39 when flew into the ground in fog and low cloud, near Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. All three crew were killed:

Pilot Officer Donald Kerr Robertson (Service Number 70578, aged 20) killed
Sgt Ronald Leslie Harrison (Service Number 580491, aged 19) killed
AC.2 Francis Joseph Wilkes (Service Number 618247, aged 20) killed

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1976 page 76)
2. The Battle File (Sidneyu Shail, Air Britain, 1997 p 131)
3. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/1636: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16359675
4. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1939a.htm
5. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2451422/robertson,-donald-kerr/
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2411715/harrison,-ronald-leslie/
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2450232/wilkes,-francis-joseph/
8. http://www.chippingnortonbritishlegion.com/little-rissington-churchyard.php
9. http://www.aviation-links.co.uk/Gloucestershire%20Aircraft%20Accidents.pdf
10. http://www.rafjever.org/98squadchronology.htm

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
25-Apr-2018 19:40	Dr. John Smith	Added
01-Nov-2018 10:07	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
26-Jun-2019 18:52	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]