Date:	Tuesday 30 April 1940
Time:	night
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk 1a
Owner/operator:	99 Sqn RAF
Registration:	P9276
MSN:	LN-H
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	The Wash, off Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Newmarket, Suffolk
Destination airport:	RAF Newmarket, Suffolk

Narrative:
Vickers Wellington Mk.1a P9276 (LN-H) of 99 Squadron, RAF: Officially listed as "Wellington Ia P9276 failed to return from air operations to attack Stavanger Aerodrome, Norway 30 April 1940". The aircraft left RAF Newmarket at 18:00 on April 29 on a mission to attack Stavanger Aerodrome, Norway, with Kristiansand and Aalborg (Denmark) as secondary targets. The aircraft disappeared into the North Sea. One source (see link #4) claims that P9276 crashed into The Wash off Holbeach, Lincolnshire. All six crew posted as "missing presumed dead", however, all six bodies were recovered, having been washed ashore

Crew of Wellington P9276:
F/Sgt John William Lewis Goldie Brent (Captain, pilot, Service Number 355953) - killed in action;
F/O Herbert Gage Muller (2nd Pilot, Service Number 39558) - killed in action;
Sgt Peter Christopher Cunningham (Observer, Service Number 580784) - killed in action
AC.1 Michael John O'Sullivan (WOp/AG, Service Number 621221) - killed in action;
AC.1 Donald Lilley (AG, Service Number 631565) - killed in action;
P/O Gerald Arthur Hugh Poole (AG Service Number 76015) - killed in action;

As can be seen from the above, all six crew were buried in six separate locations, but all six were listed as killed in action on May 1 1940 (that is the morning after the operation).

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft P1000-P9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1979 p 52)
2. National Archvies (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/118: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14142006
3. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-vickers-416-wellington-ic-north-sea-6-killed-3
4. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35503722
5. http://www.doverwarmemorialproject.org.uk/Casualties/WWIInot/SurnamesM.htm
6. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2430102/brent,-john-william-lewis-goldie/
7. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2435379/muller,-herbert-gage/
8. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2706362/cunningham,-peter-chris/
9. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2721272/o'sullivan,-michael-john/
10. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2406292/lilley,-donald/
11. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2427365/poole,-gerard-arthur-hugh/

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
11-Jun-2019 22:15	Dr. John Smith	Added
12-Jun-2019 12:52	stehlik49	Updated [Operator]
06-Jan-2021 10:45	T.T.Taylor	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Narrative, Operator]