Date:	Wednesday 6 September 1939
Time:	06:15
Type:	Hawker Hurricane Mk I
Owner/operator:	56 (Punjab) Sqn RAF
Registration:	L1980
MSN:	LR-C
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Minor
Location:	near Ipswich, Suffolk, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF North Weald, Essex
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Hawker Hurricane L1980/C: First Hurricane with De Havilland 3-blade Variable Pitch airscrew. Written off (destroyed) 06/09/1939: One of two Hurricanes shot down by 74 Squadron Spitfires from Hornchurch in the so-called "Battle of Barking Creek".
Crew:
P/O (39901) Frank Charles ROSE (pilot) RAF- was uninjured.
The Spitfire pilots were court-martialled, but it was decided that there was no case to answer. L1980 was repaired but lost when HMS Glorious was sunk on the 8th of June 1940,

Flt/Off FRANK CHARLES ROSE (39901) was killed in action over Vitry-en-Artois, France on 18/05/1940.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-L9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 14)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/6: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14141985
3. https://www.worldnavalships.com/directory/airframeprofile.php?FrameID=23546
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Barking_Creek
5. https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/70/a5781170.shtml
6. http://blitzwalkers.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-battle-of-barking-creek.html
7. THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, September 7, 1939: http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/564274
8. http://ww2today.com/the-first-british-pilot-is-shot-down-in-the-battle-of-barking-creek

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