Studiegroep Luchtoorlog 1939-1945

Loss Register


Loss chart: T1464
Day or Night of operation Operation Target Nickname Aircraft
27/28 Mar 42 SD / SOE Watercress
Factory Aircraft Mk Serial/Wnr. Code Unit Air Force TO/t Airfield
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley V T4166 NF-B 138 Sqdn RAF Tempsford
Time Cause of the Crash Crash Location Damage Province
0015 Shot down by Ofw. S. Ney of 5./NJG 2 Crashed into North Sea n of Petten North Sea
Function Mil Rank Ini Name Age Mil reg Air Force Fate Cemetery Grave Remarks
Pilot P/O. S. Widdup 67703 RAF MIA Runnymede Memorial 72
Second Pilot F/Sgt. J. Thompson 21 1055985 RAF MIA Runnymede Memorial 76
Observer P/O. R.W. Franklin 26 105182 RAF MIA Runnymede Memorial 69
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner Sgt. K. Hailstone 20 820044 RauxAF MIA Runnymede Memorial 84
Rear Gunner Sgt. G.R. Wood 20 1334807 RAF KIA Bergen op Zoom 32 A 5 Initially buried Huisduinen S-110
Air Despatcher Sgt. W.C. Evans 26 526918 RAF MIA Runnymede Memorial 82
Dutch Agent Sgt. A.A. Baatsen 34 - POW-Killed - Parachuted near Steenwijk; was executed on 7 Sep 44 in Mauthausen
Wartime Records Background Info
Operations Record Book Chorley, ‘Bomber Command Losses 1942’, page 54; Boiten, ‘Nachtjagd Combat Archive July 1941-May 1942’, page 98; Zwanenburg, 'En nooit was het stil I', page 531

Version March, 2022