Date:	Friday 12 April 1940
Time:	night
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk 1c
Owner/operator:	115 Sqn RAF
Registration:	P9284
MSN:	KO-J
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:	3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Stavanger-Sola Airfield, Stavanger, Rogaland -   Norway
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Marham, Norfolk
Destination airport:	RAF Marham, Norfolk

Narrative:
Vickers Wellington Mk.1c P9284 (KO-J) of 115 Squadron RAF: Lost/failed to return from combat operations on night of 11/12 April 1940. Took off from RAF Marham, Norfolk at 18.00 with Stavanger-Sola Airfield, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway, as the target. Shot down by Flak/AAA in target area, all six crew killed

Pilot Officer (Pilot) Frederick Edward Barber, RAF 36223, 115 Sqn., age 26, 12/04/1940, Stavanger (Eiganes) Churchyard, Norway
Pilot Officer (Pilot) David Alexander Rankin, RAF 36180 (New Zealand), 115 Sqn., age 25, 12/04/1940, Stavanger (Eiganes) Churchyard, Norway
Sergeant (Observer) Alan Sydney Pearce, RAF 580805, 115 Sqn., age 20, 12/04/1940, Stavanger (Eiganes) Churchyard, Norway
Sergeant Geoffrey William James Juby, RAF 514904, 115 Sqdn., age 28, 12/04/1940, Stavanger (Eiganes) Churchyard, Norway
Leading Aircraftman Lionel Allen Westcott, RAF 545537, 115 Sqdn., age 21, 12/04/1940, Stavanger (Eiganes) Churchyard, Norway
Pilot Officer (Air Gunner) Peter Edward Tucker Bull, RAFVR 76004, 115 Sqdn., age 26, 12/04/1940, Stavanger (Eiganes) Churchyard, Norway (NCO:759166 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 12 December, 1939)

Wellington P9284 was the lead aircraft in the second wave of the raid, and crashed on top of a bakery in Stavanger. Other sources say that P9284 crashed on top of Storhaug School in Stavanger, killing two (or three) civilians in the building

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft P1000-P9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 52)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/121: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14141956
3. Coastal Dawn: Blenheims in Action from the Phoney War through the Battle of Britain By Andrew Bird p 43
4. http://www.oldhaltonians.co.uk/pages/rememb/ROH/20.htm
5. https://wartimememoriesproject.com/ww2/view.php?uid=221410
6. http://boredhistorian.blogspot.com/2015/09/target-stavanger-1141940.html
7. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-vickers-416-wellington-ic-stavanger-6-killed
8. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2186862/barber,-frederick-edward/
9. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2186890/rankin,-david-alexander/
10. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2186888/pearce,-alan-sydney/
11. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2186881/juby,-geoffrey-william-james/
12. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2186902/westcott,-lionel-allen/
13. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2186868/bull,-peter-edward-tucker/
14. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

21 May 1940	R3152	115 Sqn RAF	6	near Le Havre, Seine Maratime		w/o
3 August 1940	R3202	115 Sqn RAF	6	Waddenzee near Rottumeroog, Groningen prv		w/o
4 June 1942	X3635	115 Sqn RAF	5	1 km south of Adelheide, Delmenhorst, Niedersachsen		w/o
26 July 1942	Z1606	115 Sqn RAF	5	near Krefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen		w/o
14 September 1942	BJ693	115 Sqn RAF	6	North Sea off Niedersachsen		w/o
28 September 1942	Z1663	115 Sqn RAF	3	IJsselmeer 8 km SW of Urk, (modern Flevoland)		w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
07-Jun-2019 18:20	Dr. John Smith	Added
07-Jun-2019 18:26	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Date]
08-Jun-2019 10:40	stehlik49	Updated [Operator]
11-Apr-2024 06:33	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]