Date:	Saturday 7 September 1940
Time:	c.
Type:	Supermarine Walrus Mk I
Owner/operator:	765 Sqn FAA RN
Registration:	-
MSN:	-
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	English Channel, 8 miles south of Anvil Point, Swanage, Dorset, -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RNAS Sandbanks, Poole Harbour , Dorset, England
Destination airport:

Narrative:
765 Sqn. FAA, Royal Navy, Supermarine Walrus, operating from RNAS Sandbanks (HMS Daedalus II), Poole Harbour, Dorset, England, was on a rescue mission to recover the aircrew of a downed German Bomber, from the English Channel, 8 miles south of Anvil Point, Swanage, Dorset, when on the approach for landing the Walrus was shot down by a Luftwaffe fighter. The two aircrew Pilot, Lieutenant, Thomas Essery Rose-Richards and Pilot, Lieutenant, Michael Covernton Hoskin were lost with the aircraft.

The Lost Flying Boats of Blackburn, Fairey and Supermarine (visit-gloucestershire.co.uk)
US Destroyers-UK Base Exchange, October 1940 (naval-history.net)
Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Flying Personnel 1939 - 1947 (aircrewremembered.com)
Casualty Details | CWGC
Casualty Details | CWGC
Newcomers at Poole with RNAS Sandbanks Master Copy (pooleflyingboats.com)
765 Naval Air Squadron (royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk)
Laugharne WW2 War Memorial – WWWMP (ww1.wales)
Hurst War Memorial - Rose-Richards, Thomas Essery
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?16121-Selected-FAA-or-Naval-Involvemennt-in-Aircrat-Casualty-Packs-at-the-National-Archives&styleid=3
http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/FAA-Bases/Sandbanks.htm#.YDBQ89VxeM8

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
20-Feb-2021 00:49	Peter Clarke	Added