Date & Time:
Apr 30, 1942
Type of aircraft:
Vickers 406 Wellington II
Operator:
Registration:
Z8525
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Lake, Sea, Ocean, River
Schedule:
Driffield - Driffield
Country:
World
Region:
World
Crew on board:
5
Crew fatalities:
5
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
0
Total fatalities:
5
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Driffield at 2128LT on April 29 on an operation to Ostend. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt John Edwin Travers Saunders, pilot,
F/Sgt Horace Kempton Bedwell, observer,
Sgt Douglas Ronald Freear, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Gordon Randolph Lefebvre, wireless operator,
Sgt Herbert Reginald Frank Wakeford, air gunner.
Crew:
Sgt John Edwin Travers Saunders, pilot,
F/Sgt Horace Kempton Bedwell, observer,
Sgt Douglas Ronald Freear, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Gordon Randolph Lefebvre, wireless operator,
Sgt Herbert Reginald Frank Wakeford, air gunner.
