Accident Short Stirling Mk I N6047,
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Date:Sunday 12 October 1941
Time:23:45 claim
Type:Silhouette image of generic strl model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Short Stirling Mk I
Owner/operator:15 Sqn RAF
Registration: N6047
MSN: LS-P
Fatalities:Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Mariembourg, Couvin, Namur -   Belgium
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Wyton, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Operation - Nürnberg, Germany.
The aircraft was intercepted by the crew of Feldwebel Kollak/Unteroffizier Hermann of the 1./NJG 1, who had taken off from Sint-Truiden (St Trond) in Bf 110 C-7 G9+LH.
The crew rests in the Dinant (Citadelle) Military Cemetery (collective grave):


Pilot : P/O Victor Charles Henry Colbourne RAF 45444 (NCO:562659) [Killed] (NCO:562659 Commission Gazetted : Friday 04 April, 1941)
2/Pilot : P/O Harold Mohr-Bell RAFVR 101582 (NCO:1291907) [Killed] (NCO:1291907 Commission Gazetted : Friday 15 August, 1941)
F/E : Sgt Sidney Bentley RAF 568024 [Killed]
Obs : P/O Thomas Edward Wootton RAFVR 61024 (NCO:935415) [Killed] (NCO:935415 Commission Gazetted : Friday 14 March, 1941)
W/Op/AG : Sgt Ivor Llewellyn Evans RAFVR 918268 [Killed]
W/Op/AG : Sgt Bernard William Wareham RAFVR 1164194 [Killed]
A/G : Sgt George Joseph Goodwin RCAF R/1961 [Killed]
A/G : Sgt Frederick Alexander Lamb RAFVR 1171689 [Killed]

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
Aircrew Remembered
https://luchtvaartgeschiedenis.be/content/stirling-bij-mariembourg
Google Maps
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
18 July 1941 N6030 15 Sqn RAF 7 North Sea southeast of Deal, Kent, England w/o
22 January 1942 N6093 15 Sqn RAF 0 RAF Wyton, Huntingdonshire, England w/o
20 July 1942 R9308 15 Sqn RAF 0 RAF Waterbeach w/o
8 March 1943 BK697 15 Sqn RAF 6 Champneuville, northwest of Verdun, Meuse, Grand Est w/o

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
16-Jun-2021 14:21 Adrian Added
16-Jun-2021 15:25 Gerard Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Damage, Operator]
04-Dec-2021 19:00 TigerTimon Updated [Date, Time, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
26-Jun-2022 02:20 Ron Averes Updated [Location]
12-Oct-2022 07:56 Anon. Updated [Source, Narrative]

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