Middleton St George AFB

The airplane was engaged in a training exercise at RAF Middleton Saint George. After touchdown on the secondary runway, it went out of control and veered off runway to the right. While contacting soft ground, the right main gear collapsed and the airplane came to rest. There were no casualties among the crew.
Crew:
P/O A. E. Lewin.

The airplane departed RAF Middleton St George at 2300LT on June 8 on an operation to Dortmund. While returning to base the following morning, it descended through clouds when it crashed in a small wooded valley near Ellingstring, bursting into flames. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Alfred Victor Snelling, pilot,
Sgt Dennis Russell Simm, pilot,
Sgt John Staley Tomkinson, pilot,
F/Sgt Gordon Billing, wireless operator,
Sgt John Bernard Stevens, wireless operator.

The airplane departed RAF Middleton St George at 2355LT on May 28 on an operation to Kiel. It was lost without trace, maybe it crashed somewhere in the North Sea. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Alfred Thomas Copley, pilot,
Sgt Wilfred Bruce Smith, pilot,
Sgt Albert Cooke, observer,
Sgt Donald Roy Stickland, wireless operator,
Sgt Alfred Gregory, wireless operator.

The airplane departed RAF Middleton St George at 2243LT on May 16 on an operation to Cologne. While passing over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a Me.110 and crashed near Maasbree. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O John Aubrey Trevor Garrould, pilot,
Sgt Robert Sydney Langston Keymer, pilot,
F/Sgt Reginald James Garlish, observer,
Sgt Edward Oakes, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Alexander Plant Smith, wireless operator.

The airplane departed RAF Middleton St George at 2225LT on May 8 on an operation to Bremen. It was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Heisfelde, in the north suburb of Leer. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Lawrence Thorpe, pilot,
P/O Ronald Walter Wallis-Stolze, pilot,
Sgt Peter James Lewis, observer,
F/Sgt Herbert Eric Bailey, wireless operator,
Sgt Peter William Reynolds Emmett, wireless operator.

The airplane departed RAF Middleton St George at 2045LT on May 3 on an operation to Cologne. The following morning, while returning to base, the crew encountered technical problems with the wireless system. As the airplane ran out of fuel, all five crew members bailed out and abandoned the airplane that dove into the ground and crashed in Leominster. All five occupants were uninjured.
Crew:
Sgt L. Hatcher,
Sgt Chandos,
Sgt H. B. Buttell,
Sgt T. K. Moodie,
Sgt T. Hall.