ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 209888
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| Date: | Tuesday 7 November 1939 |
| Time: | morning |
| Type: | Hawker Hart |
| Owner/operator: | 1 FPP RAF |
| Registration: | K4439 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Rabbitt Hill, Ewelme Park, near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Feltham, Middlesex |
| RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Hawker Hart Mk.I K4439, 1 Ferry Pilot Pool: Written off (damaged beyond repair) on the morning of 7/11/39, P/O James Campbell collected an aircraft from Feltham for delivery to Brize Norton. Pilot Officer James Campbell (Service 41345) was killed on 7th November 1939, almost certainly piloting Hart K4439 which flew into high ground on Rabbitt Hill, Ewelme Park, to the north east of Benson, near Henley. Pilot Officer Campbell was twenty years old, from Lakeside, Province of Quebec, Canada, and is buried at Benson Churchyard Extension.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1976 page 34)
2. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1939a.htm
3. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2421348/campbell,-james-campbell/
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewelme
5. http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2421348
6. https://www.bensingtonhistory.org/benson-1939-1945
7. http://www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk/aircraft/yorkshire/york39/l3026.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Apr-2018 19:57 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 01-Oct-2018 17:06 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 27-Nov-2018 21:52 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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