Date:	Thursday 2 December 1943
Time:	19:55
Type:	de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk IX
Owner/operator:	109 Sqn RAF
Registration:	LR499
MSN:	HS-O
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	De Bleken, Heeswijk-Dinther, Noord-Brabant. -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Marham, Norfolk
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Mosquito LR499/O: Took off at 17:30 hrs for a Bombing operation to Bochum. 02/12/943
Damaged by Flak. Missing. Last heard by Trimingham at 19:55 hrs, bearing 105 degrees. Minutes later the Mosquito came down at Heeswijk en Dinter (NL) 
Crew: 
F/O (137189) Leonard Frank BICKLEY (pilot) RAFVR - OK evd. (NCO:656585 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 09 February, 1943)
F/O (105241) John Howard JACKSON (nav.) RAFVR – OK evd. (NCO:524341 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 20 October, 1942)

1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txtt
2.Air Britain: RAF Aircraft LA100 - LZ999, published 1991
3.Global Losses Database (Henk Welting) Database
4.RAF 109 Sqn ORB
5.CWGC
6.Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

4 December 1944

ML990

109 Sqn RAF

0

west of Aachen

w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
25-Nov-2009 11:06	NePa	Updated
08-Nov-2011 02:30	Nepa	Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
24-Dec-2011 14:15	Nepa	Updated [Location, Narrative]
29-Dec-2011 10:33	Uli Elch	Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative]
30-Dec-2011 01:03	Nepa	Updated [Operator]
27-Jun-2014 09:35	Next	Updated [Aircraft type, Departure airport, Narrative]
30-Sep-2014 19:24	Charlie Harper	Updated [Narrative]
30-Sep-2014 19:25	Charlie Harper	Updated [Narrative]
01-Aug-2015 19:09	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Location]
18-Mar-2016 10:08	Charlie Harper	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative]
04-Sep-2018 10:14	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative, Operator]
30-Nov-2018 10:46	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative]
30-Nov-2018 10:46	TigerTimon	Updated [Narrative]
20-Dec-2018 16:36	Nepa	Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative, Operator]
16-Oct-2021 16:42	Rob Davis	Updated [Narrative]
06-Jan-2022 17:21	Nepa	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative, Operator]
29-Jul-2022 06:02	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]
31-Jul-2022 09:14	Nepa	Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator]
05-Aug-2022 12:44	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]