Date:	Monday 30 September 1940
Time:
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk Ic
Owner/operator:	115 Sqn RAF
Registration:	R3292
MSN:	KO-F
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	between Devern and Grothe; Badbergen, Niedersachsen -   Germany
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Marham, Norfolk (KNF/EGYM)
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Vickers Wellington R3292 ("KO-F" of 115 Squadron, RAF) crashed near a farm house. Takeoff was at 19:37 hrs local time, the target being the marshalling yards of Osnabrück.
The aircraft was coned by searchlights and shot down by a night fighter crew of the 2./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 from Vechta airfield. The Wimpey crashed either on the evening of the 30st of September or in the early hours of the 1st of October.
All six Crew members died and today three of them are still missing.
Runnymede Memorial:
Pilot Sgt. Cyril Wessels,
Sgt. Alexander Douglas Cameron and
Sgt. Neville Wiliam Gordon Thompson

Were first buried at the cemetery at Achmer. Today on the war cemetery in Reichswald Kleve-Germany:

Sgt. Alan Jervis Pennington
Sgt. Harald William Pritchard and
Sgt. James George Campbell McNair

The crash site and parts of the bomber was found by the German historian and Crash site Researcher Volker Urbansky from Cloppenburg.

1. old report from Bramsche newspaper
2. Volker Urbansky historian and crash site researcher, Cloppenburg-Germany [v.urbansky@t-online.de]
3. http://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/air-force-operations/airplanes-allies-and-axis-lost/wellington/R32921940-10-01.html?tmpl=component&mapinfo=1
4. Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
5. https://115squadron-raf.be/crews/Wellington%20Mk%20IC%20-%20R3292%20-%20KO-F.html

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

21 May 1940	P9297	115 Sqn RAF	0	Givet, near Poix-Terron, 10 km S of Charleville-Mézières, Ardennes		w/o
26 March 1942	X3589	115 Sqn RAF	6	east-southeast of Goch, Nordrhein-Westfalen		w/o
2 June 1942	X3721	115 Sqn RAF	5	North Sea		mis

These remnants were found at the crash site 2017

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
12-Mar-2017 18:40	Volker Urbansky	Added
18-Apr-2017 23:15	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Registration, Cn, Other fatalities, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
18-Apr-2017 23:16	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Time]
18-Apr-2017 23:17	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
23-Dec-2017 16:28	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Destination airport, Narrative]
28-Oct-2018 15:42	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
24-Sep-2020 15:02	TigerTimon	Updated [Date, Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative]
24-Sep-2020 15:03	TigerTimon	Updated [Time]
24-Sep-2020 15:03	TigerTimon	Updated [Time]