ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 162880
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| Date: | Wednesday 9 September 1942 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
| Owner/operator: | 102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | W7677 |
| MSN: | DY-Q |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Rambrouch, 18km WSW of Ettelbruck. -
 Luxembourg
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Pocklington, North Yorkshire |
Took off from RAF Pocklington at 20:57.
Hit by flak whilst outbound which damaged the port outer engine. Between 00:36 & 01:00 considerable misfiring was experienced. It was decided to abandon the aircraft and it crashed at Rambrouch 18km WSW of Ettelbruck.
Sgt Whitfield died of natural causes in captivity on 5 March 1945.
Sgt Heap & Sgt Griffiths were awarded the DFM for their actions. Gazetted on 5 February 1943.
Crew
Pilot: 1375165 Sgt Francis Harold John Farrell - Folschette ( Rambrouch) Churchyard Collective Grave
Flight Engineer: 646741 WO Frederick Whitfield - PoW/Stalag 344 Lamsdorf/PoW Number 27049/ Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery Plot 8 Row C Grave 19.
Navigator: 655774 Sgt John Goodson Phillips - Folschette ( Rambrouch) Churchyard Collective Grave.
Sgt K R Wright - PoW/Stalag 344 Lamsdorf/PoW Number 26981.
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner: 1202956 Sgt Owen Kidd Barclay - Folschette ( Rambrouch) Churchyard
Collective Grave.
Air Gunner: Aus/405053 Sgt Edmund Thomas Heap RAAF - Evaded via the Comete Line/Returned to UK at RAF Portreath on 1 November 1942.
Air Gunner: 1379633 Sgt John Lewis Griffiths - Evaded via the Comete Line/Returned to UK at RAF
Hendon on 6 December 1942.
Sources:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rambrouch_Halifax_crash_site_1942_a.jpg
CWGC
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 26 June 1942 | W7654 | 102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF | 6 | Missing |  |
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| 25 June 1943 | JD144 | 102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF | 5 | Failon, Namur |  |
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| 4 July 1943 | BB428 | 102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF | 5 | near Winterscheid, 7 NM WNW Prüm, Rheinland-Pfalz |  |
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| 4 November 1944 | MZ772 | 102 (Ceylon) Sqn RAF | 7 | near Laurensberg, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 28-Dec-2013 14:17 | gerard57 | Added |
| 29-Jul-2019 12:57 | Anon. | Updated [Cn, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 21-Nov-2023 20:26 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Location, Destination airport, Narrative, Operator] |
| 21-Nov-2023 20:44 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Operator] |
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