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Date: | Tuesday 2 April 1940 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Hawker Hurricane Mk 1 |
Owner/operator: | 151 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | L1799 |
MSN: | DZ-X |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea, off Coast of Suffolk, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Hawker Hurricane Mk.1 L1799 (DZ-X) of 151 Squadron, RAF, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk: Written off (destroyed) 2 April 1940 when "failed to return from convoy patrol over the North Sea, 2 April 1940". Aircraft dived into the sea off the coast of Suffolk. Pilot killed (probably drowned)
Crew:
P/O (42493) Henry Coxon Ferguson FENTON (pilot) RAF - missing presumed dead".
As no trace of the Hurricane or its pilot was ever found, P/O Fenton is Commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-L9999 (James J .Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 13)
2. CWGC; Norman L.R. Franks, RAF Fighter Command losses: Volume 1, 1939-1941, Midland Publishing Limited, 2nd edition, 2008
3. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/110:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14141945 4.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1269918/fenton,-henry-coxon-ferguson/ 5.
http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/151_squadron.html
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
25 May 1940 |
P3323 |
151 Sqn RAF |
1 |
12 miles SW of Ostend, West Flanders |
|
w/o |
Mid-air collision |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
07-Jun-2019 15:40 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
08-Jun-2019 09:43 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator] |
08-Sep-2020 08:51 |
db |
Updated [Location, Narrative, Operator] |