Date:	Saturday 7 September 1940
Time:	c.
Type:	Supermarine Walrus Mk I
Owner/operator:	765 Sqn FAA RN
Registration:	-
MSN:	-
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	English Channel, 8 miles south of Anvil Point, Swanage, Dorset, -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RNAS Sandbanks, Poole Harbour , Dorset, England
Destination airport:

Narrative:
765 Sqn. FAA, Royal Navy, Supermarine Walrus, operating from RNAS Sandbanks (HMS Daedalus II), Poole Harbour, Dorset, England, was on a rescue mission to recover the aircrew of a downed German Bomber, from the English Channel, 8 miles south of Anvil Point, Swanage, Dorset, when on the approach for landing the Walrus was shot down by a Luftwaffe fighter. The two aircrew Pilot, Lieutenant, Thomas Essery Rose-Richards and Pilot, Lieutenant, Michael Covernton Hoskin were lost with the aircraft.

The Lost Flying Boats of Blackburn, Fairey and Supermarine (visit-gloucestershire.co.uk)
US Destroyers-UK Base Exchange, October 1940 (naval-history.net)
Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Flying Personnel 1939 - 1947 (aircrewremembered.com)
Casualty Details | CWGC
Casualty Details | CWGC
Newcomers at Poole with RNAS Sandbanks Master Copy (pooleflyingboats.com)
765 Naval Air Squadron (royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk)
Laugharne WW2 War Memorial – WWWMP (ww1.wales)
Hurst War Memorial - Rose-Richards, Thomas Essery
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?16121-Selected-FAA-or-Naval-Involvemennt-in-Aircrat-Casualty-Packs-at-the-National-Archives&styleid=3
http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/FAA-Bases/Sandbanks.htm#.YDBQ89VxeM8

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

20 May 1939	L2308	712 Sqn FAA RAF	1	The Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Maine,		w/o
31 October 1939	L2261	711 Sqn FAA RN	3	Missing off South Africa		mis
13 December 1939	K8341	718 Sqn FAA RN	0	off the River Plate, South America		w/o
13 December 1939	K8343	718 Sqn FAA RN	0	off the River Plate, South America		w/o
18 January 1940	P5648	712 Sqn FAA RN	2	Bishop Briggs, 3 miles north of Glasgow, Scotland,		w/o
24 April 1940	L2316	700 Sqn FAA RN	3	At sea off Fair Isle, Dunrossness, Shetland Islands, Scotland,		w/o
9 May 1940	L2225	765 Sqn FAA RN	1	The Solent/Southampton Water, Hampshire, England,		w/o
18 May 1940	P5647	700 Sqn FAA RN	2	Malangen Fjord, 32 miles south west of Tromsø,		w/o
25 September 1940	L2247	9 Sqn RAAF	3	South Atlantic Ocean off Dakar,		w/o
1 March 1942	L2319	9 Sqn RAAF	4	6 miles NE of Tanjung Pujut, Java		w/o
9 August 1942	P5715	9 Sqn RAAF	0	7 miles SE of Savo Island, Central		w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
20-Feb-2021 00:49	Peter Clarke	Added