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Date: | Wednesday 4 September 1940 |
Time: | 21:30 |
Type: | Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 264 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | N1628 |
MSN: | PS-M |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Northorpe, 3 miles W of RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Defiant N1628/'M': Written off (Destroyed) 4 September 1940 when crashed on an operational Night Combat Patrol. At 21:30hrs on 4th September 1940 he was crewed with F/O Derek Kepper Coleridge O'Malley in Defiant N1628, they were ordered to take off on an interception patrol. For some reason the aircraft remained at low altitude until striking the ground near Northorpe, about 3 miles west of the airfield. Both crew killed
Crew of Defiant N1628:
F/O (72475) Derek Keppel Coleridge O'MALLEY (pilot) RAFVR - killed
Sgt (391868) Laurie Andrew Woodney RASMUSSEN (AG) RNZAF - killed
Both crew were buried at Kirton-in-Lindsey Cemetery, Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire
Sgt Rasmussen was the youngest of the New Zealanders who took part in the Battle of Britain and had only 19 hours as an Air Gunner at the time of his death.
Northorpe is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, about 8 miles north-east from the town of Gainsborough
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft N1000-N9999 (James J Halley, Air Brtiain, 1977 p.9)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew File AIR 81/3062:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16472437 3.ORB 264 Sqdn RAF for September 1940: National Archives (PRO Kew) AIR 27/1553/10:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8398008 4. CWGC:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2358540/derek-keppel-coleridge-o-malley/ 5. CWGC:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2358543/laurie-andrew-woodney-rasmussen/ 6.
https://www.northlincsweb.net/RAFElshamWolds/html/4th_september_1940_-_264_sqn-_raf_kirton-in-lindsey_-_boulton_pa.html 7.
https://www.bbm.org.uk/airmen/OMalley.htm 8.
https://www.bbm.org.uk/airmen/Rasmussen.htm 9.
https://aircrewremembered.com/omalley-derek-keppel-coleridge.html 10.
https://battleofbritain1940.com/entry/wednesday-4-september-1940/ 11.
https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-aviation/31900-4th-september-1940-we-remember 12.
https://nlahcentre.com/crashes/ 13.
https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/fallen-alumni/flying-officer-derek-keppel-coleridge-o%E2%80%99malley 14.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/O'Malley-560
15.
https://www.thepeerage.com/p68490.htm#i684899 16.
https://ags.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/7789?keywords= 17.
https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C19073 18.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northorpe,_West_Lindsey
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
13 May 1940 |
L6960 |
264 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
2 |
Polder Moordplaat, Drimmelen, Noord-Brabant |
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w/o |
Revision history:
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13-Nov-2010 13:24 |
Nepa |
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15-Nov-2010 15:34 |
Nepa |
Updated [Date, Location] |
19-Oct-2012 07:39 |
Nepa |
Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
09-May-2013 09:21 |
Anon. |
Updated [Source] |
11-Aug-2013 08:45 |
JINX |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Narrative] |
13-Aug-2013 18:17 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
14-Jun-2015 06:17 |
Thomas Fuk |
Updated [Date, Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Total fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
04-Oct-2018 13:12 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |