Date & Time:
Nov 7, 1942 at 2000 LT
Type of aircraft:
Avro 683 Lancaster
Operator:
Registration:
L7546
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Langar - Langar
Country:
France
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
7
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
0
Total fatalities:
7
Circumstances:
The aircraft left RAF Langar at 1801LT on a bombing mission to Genoa, Italy. While overflying Aube by night, the bomber went out of control and crashed in an open field located in Champignol-lez-Mondeville, some 50 km southeast of Troyes. All seven occupants were killed.
Crew (207th Squadron):
P/O A. V. R. S. Wilson, pilot,
Sgt William Alfred Henry Ball, flight engineer,
F/Sgt William James Rose, navigator,
Sgt John Henry Lovell,
F/Sgt Arthur John Perrin, wireless operator and air gunner,
F/Sgt Robert Peter Strain, wireless operator and air gunner,
F/Sgt Charles Woodrow Wilson Peck, air gunner.
Crew (207th Squadron):
P/O A. V. R. S. Wilson, pilot,
Sgt William Alfred Henry Ball, flight engineer,
F/Sgt William James Rose, navigator,
Sgt John Henry Lovell,
F/Sgt Arthur John Perrin, wireless operator and air gunner,
F/Sgt Robert Peter Strain, wireless operator and air gunner,
F/Sgt Charles Woodrow Wilson Peck, air gunner.
