Date:	Tuesday 2 September 1941
Time:	22:00
Type:	Handley Page Hampden Mk I
Owner/operator:	83 Sqn RAF
Registration:	X3144
MSN:	OL-N
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Waddenzee, off Afsluitdijk, Friesland -   Netherlands
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:	RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire

Narrative:
Handley Page Hampden Mk.I X3144 (OL-N) of 83 Squadron, RAF. Lost on combat operations on night of 2/9/1941. Mission: "Gardening" (Mine laying). Took off from RAF Scampton at 20:00 hrs to lay mines off the Frisian Islands. Presumed lost in the target area, as not heard of after 22:00 hours, when X3144 was over the Waddenzee, off Kornwerderzand. (Kornwerderzand is a settlement on the Afsluitdijk, a major dam in the Netherlands that links Friesland with North Holland, at approximate co ordinates: 53°04′23″N 5°20′00″E). All four crew on board killed

Crew
960514: Sgt.Claude William Allen RAF (pilot,aged 21) - KIA, body not recovered
1104087: Sgt. Arthur Wilson Rowan RAF (Observer, aged 19) - KIA, body recovered, buried at Den Burg Cemetery, Texel, Netherlands
911524: Sgt. Henry Bruce Barcroft Teesdale Smith RAFVR (Wireless Op/Air Gunner) - KIA, body not recovered
983616: Sgt. Harold Kay RAF (Air Gunner, aged 21) - KIA, body recovered, buried at Harlingen

Sgt Rowan is buried in Den Burg Cemetery, Texel, Netherlands, while Sgt Kay rests in Harlingen General Cemetery, Friesland, Netherlands. The rest have no know grave, and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial

1. W.R. Chorley: Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 136.
2. Alsfassen und Breiten: Beiträge zur Ortsgeschichte edited by Roland Geiger page 3189 (German text)
3. http://www.nimh.nl/nl/images/1941%20sec_tcm5-7282.pdf
4. https://studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/02-03-09-1941-sglo-t1241-handley-page-hampden-mk-i-x3144-ol-n/
5. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1082689/allen,-claud-william/
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2620049/rowan,-arthur-wilson/
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1807466/smith,-henry-bruce-barcroft-teesdale/
8. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2649067/kay,-harold/

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

9 August 1940

L4053

83 Sqn RAF

0

Near Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg

w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
08-May-2016 17:52	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
04-Aug-2018 07:16	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
11-Nov-2018 12:12	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
24-Mar-2020 13:04	TigerTimon	Updated [Other fatalities]
20-Jun-2022 21:11	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]