Date & Time:
Jul 30, 1942 at 0115 LT
Type of aircraft:
Short S.29 Stirling
Operator:
Registration:
R9161
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
Yes
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Lakenheath - Lakenheath
Country:
France
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
6
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
0
Total fatalities:
6
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Lakenheath at 0001LT on an operation to Saarbrücken. Over France, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Regniowez. Six crew members were killed and a seventh became PoW.
Crew:
F/Lt Frederick George Neate, pilot, †
P/O Richard Robert Graham, observer, †
Sgt Arthur Allsopp, wireless operator, †
Sgt James Theodore Avedisian, wireless operator, †
F/Sgt Ernest Joseph Le Blanc, wireless operator, †
Sgt Henry Woolls Sampson, air gunner, †
Sgt Cyril William Hazell.
Crew:
F/Lt Frederick George Neate, pilot, †
P/O Richard Robert Graham, observer, †
Sgt Arthur Allsopp, wireless operator, †
Sgt James Theodore Avedisian, wireless operator, †
F/Sgt Ernest Joseph Le Blanc, wireless operator, †
Sgt Henry Woolls Sampson, air gunner, †
Sgt Cyril William Hazell.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
