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20/21 May 1940 Wellington Mk IC - P9298 KO-H |
T/O Marham 23u.45 - target, enemy transport in the Cambrai - Le Cateau - Cambresis - St. Quentin triangle, (France).
ORB. 20/5/40. Road Targets.
21.15. Ten aircraft, five from each flight took off at intervals,
and with twelve aircraft from HONINGTON, and ten from 38 Squadron attacked
the enemies communications in the GUISE-CAMBRAI-HIRSON area. Casualties.
P/O. MORRIS (Wellington Mk IC - J.R.3152) and F/S. MOORES failed to return.
F/O. GIBBES gunner, P/O. HOGG and A.C. MOIR slightly wounded by shell splinters.
(F/O. GIBBES's aircraft was hit in front and rear turrets by A.A., and both gunners wounded, but not seriously, by shrapnel.) 77 aircraft from 92 despatched (32 Wellingtons, 24 Whitleys and 18 Blenheims) continue the RAF's attempt
to halt the German advance in northern France. Source: Bomber Command Campaign Diary Believed shot down by flak/AAA, in the early hours of May 21, crashed and exploded with all bombs still on board.
Aircraft came down at Tourpes, Leuze-en-Hainaut, located in the Walloon Region in the province of Hainaut at
approximate co ordinates 50°34'23" North, 3°39'04" East. Source: Aviation-safety.
21.15. Ten aircraft, five from each flight took off at intervals,
and with twelve aircraft from HONINGTON, and ten from 38 Squadron attacked
the enemies communications in the GUISE-CAMBRAI-HIRSON area. Casualties.
P/O. MORRIS (Wellington Mk IC - J.R.3152) and F/S. MOORES failed to return.
F/O. GIBBES gunner, P/O. HOGG and A.C. MOIR slightly wounded by shell splinters.
(F/O. GIBBES's aircraft was hit in front and rear turrets by A.A., and both gunners wounded, but not seriously, by shrapnel.) 77 aircraft from 92 despatched (32 Wellingtons, 24 Whitleys and 18 Blenheims) continue the RAF's attempt
to halt the German advance in northern France. Source: Bomber Command Campaign Diary Believed shot down by flak/AAA, in the early hours of May 21, crashed and exploded with all bombs still on board.
Aircraft came down at Tourpes, Leuze-en-Hainaut, located in the Walloon Region in the province of Hainaut at
approximate co ordinates 50°34'23" North, 3°39'04" East. Source: Aviation-safety.
Moores Leonard George - Pilot
F/S - Service No 563572
Age: - °1913 Christchurch
RAF
Schoonselhof Cemetery Antwerp - Coll. grave IV.E.12.
CWGC - Photo Find a Grave, by david armstrong
Hooper Alfred Harold - Pilot
Sgt - Service No 700445
Age: 26
RAFVR
Schoonselhof Cemetery Antwerp - Coll. grave IV.E.12.
Son of Harold Alfred Hooper, and of Lilian Hooper,
of Wolverley, Worcestershire.Source: CWGC - photo via Niko Van Kerckhoven, thanks - Find a grave, by soilsister
Hughes Kenneth William - Observer
Sgt - Service No 581182
Age:
RAF
Schoonselhof Cemetery Antwerp - Coll. grave IV.E.12.
Son of Joseph Hughes, and of Augusta Eleanor Hughes,
of Patcham, Brighton, Sussex. Source: CWGC - Photo via Find a grave, by soilsister
Packer John Thomas - WOP/AG
AC I - Service No 621150
Age: 19
RAF
Schoonselhof Cemetery Antwerp - Coll. grave IV.E. 12.
Son of William and Mary Alice Packer, of Sunderland, Co. Durham.
Source: CWGC - photo via Niko Van Kerckhoven, Faces of schoonselhof CWGC Cemetery, thanks - Find a grave, by soilsister
Flanigan Gerard Edward - WOP/AG
AC I - Service No 552105
Age: 19
RAF
Schoonselhof Cemetery Antwerp - Coll. grave IV.E.12.
Son of Michael and Henrietta Flanigan, of Middlesbrough, Yorkshire.
Source: CWGC - Photo via Niko Van Kerckhoven, Faces of schoonselhof CWGC Cemetery, thanks -Find a grave, by soilsister
Duggan Douglas - WOP/AG
AC II - Service No 631247
Age: 18
RAF
Schoonselhof Cemetery Antwerp - Coll. grave IV.E.12.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Duggan, of Murton, Co. Durham.
CWGC - Photo via Niko Van Kerckhoven, Faces of schoonselhof CWGC Cemetery, thanks - Find a grave, by soilsister