Date:	Sunday 19 May 1940
Time:	afternoon
Type:	Hawker Hurricane Mk 1
Owner/operator:	32 Sqn RAF
Registration:	N2462
MSN:	GZ-R
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Maroilles, near Le Cateau, Nord Deparment, Hauts-de-France -   France
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Abbeville/Drucat, France
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Hawker Hurricane Mk.I N2462 (GZ-R) 32 Squadron, RAF: Written off (destroyed) when lost (failed to return from a combat air patrol on 19 May 1940. Pilot bailed out and survived. According to the official Air Ministry file on the incident (File AIR 81/420): "Flight Lieutenant J C Milner: prisoner of war; Hurricane N2362 crashed at Maroilles, France, 19 May 1940"

Bailed out in the afternoon at Maroilles, near Le Cateau, Nord Deparment, Hauts-de-France, after combat with Bf 109's of I/JG 2. Pilot - Flight Lieutenant J C Milner - was captured and taken as a POW.

NOTE: The official Air Ministry file AIR 81/420 states that the Hurricane involved as N2362. However, that aircraft was wrecked on 9 May 1940 (ten days earlier) when with 87 Squadron. The crash location and date tie in, however, with the loss of Hurricane N2462 of 32 Squadron

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft N1000-N9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1977 p 13)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/420: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502091
3. Norman L.R. Franks, Fighter Command Losses, Vol 1, 1939-1941, Second edition, Midland, 2008
4. http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=724
5. http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/32_squadron.html
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroilles,_Nord .

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
21-Jul-2019 02:02	Dr. John Smith	Added
21-Jul-2019 02:11	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Source, Narrative]
21-Jul-2019 20:07	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]