Date:	Thursday 14 December 1939
Time:
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk IA
Owner/operator:	99 Sqn RAF
Registration:	N2911
MSN:	LN-E
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:	6
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Sea, off Wangerooge Island, Lower Saxony -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Newmarket, Suffolk
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Vickers Wellington Mk.1a N2911, (LN-E) of 99 Squadron, RAF: Took off from RAF Newmarket, Suffolk at 11:43. Destroyed in a Mid-air collision with Wellington N2870 off Wangerooge Island, Lower Saxony, while trying to escape fighters during raid on Helgoland and Wilhelmshaven. Both aircraft crashed, killing all twelve crew (six in each aircraft)

Crew of Wellington N2911
Sergeant Elvies Bowen Morgan (Observer, Service Number 580738)
Sergeant Frederick George Goodwin (Observer, Service Number 564696, aged 25)
Leading Aircraftman David Graham Hodge (Service Number 531390, aged 22)
Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank James Johnson (Service Number 552464, aged 18)
Sergeant Thomas Edwin Jones (Service Number 563978, aged 27)
Sergeant William H Downey (Service Number 561103 aged 28)

The official Air Ministry file on the incident (File AIR 81/59) states "missing presumed dead; Wellington N2911 failed to return from an operational flight, believed to have crashed at sea, 14 December 1939"

1. James J Halley, Air Britain: RAF Aircraft L1000 - N9999, published 1991
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File Air 81/59: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14142176
3. Bomber Command 1939-1940: The War before the War By Gordon Thorburn p 86
4. Wimpy: A Detailed History of the Vickers Wellington in service, 1938-1953 By Steve Bond p 36
5. Flying into the Storm: RAF Bombers at War 1939-1942 By Chris Sams
6. http://www.oldhaltonians.co.uk/pages/rememb/ROH/30.htm
7. http://viewfromsomerset.blogspot.com/2018/12/sergeant-tejones-airman-of-99-squadron.html
8. https://www.baaa-acro.com/index.php/crash/crash-vickers-408-wellington-ia-wangerooge-island-6-killed-0
9. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2073997/morgan,-elvies-bowen/
10. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2073771/goodwin,-frederic-george/
11. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1800253/hodge,-david-graham/
12. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1802127/johnson,-frank-james/
13. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1802382/jones,-thomas-edwin/
14. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/232427/downey,-william-howarth/

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

20 February 1940	N3004	99 Sqn RAF	0	Sauvenière near Gembloux, 16 km NW Namur		w/o
3 March 1940	N3006	99 Sqn RAF	6	Chalk Hill, Barton Mills, Suffolk		w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
02-Jan-2012 11:27	Uli Elch	Added
04-Jun-2019 18:00	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
04-Jun-2019 18:02	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Source]
04-Jun-2019 18:03	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
08-Jun-2019 09:40	stehlik49	Updated [Operator]