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Date: | Sunday 26 May 1940 |
Time: | c. |
Type: | Fairey Swordfish Mk 1 |
Owner/operator: | 825 Sqn FAA RN |
Registration: | L2829 |
MSN: | F2771 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | None |
Location: | The English Channel, off Calais, -
France
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | ??? UK |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Fairey Swordfish Mk 1. L2829 'G5-H', was spotting the gunfire from the cruiser HMS Galatea on the German gun batteries at Calais, France, when it was attacked by two Messerschmitt 109's. During the violent evasive maneuvers Observer, Geoffrey Nethercote Beaumont was thrown to his death from the cockpit. Pilot, Lieutenant, John Bartram Kiddell and Telegraphist Air Gunner, Naval Airman 1st Class, V. S. A. Moore survived the combat and landed safely back in England.
812 Squadron, FAA Royal Navy Swordfish aircraft were transferred, May 1940, from HMS Glorious to the RAF Coastal Command to operate from shore based airfields, to take part in support operations of the Dunkirk evacuation.
Sources:
Holland and Belgium, May 1940 (naval-history.net)
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/RoyalNavyFleetAirArmDatabase/?q=Air+Gunner&o=Aircraft&d=asc British Cruiser Warfare: The Lessons of the Early War, 1939–1941 - Alan Raven - Google Books
https://timenote.info/lv/Geoffrey-Nethercote-Beaumont Roll of Honour - Sussex - Hartfield (roll-of-honour.com)
British Cruiser Warfare: The Lessons of the Early War, 1939–1941 - Alan Raven - Google Books
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
2 July 1940 |
L2829 |
825 Sqn FAA RN |
1 |
Leimuiderdijk 79, Rijsenhout, Noord-Holland, |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
30-Nov-2020 22:28 |
Peter Clarke |
Added |
01-Dec-2020 09:30 |
harro |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
06-Jan-2021 18:45 |
Peter Clarke |
Updated [Cn] |
08-Jan-2021 18:14 |
Peter Clarke |
Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative] |