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Date: | Sunday 7 September 1941 |
Time: | 14:00 LT |
Type: | Bristol Blenheim Mk IV |
Owner/operator: | 226 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | Z7312 |
MSN: | MQ-N |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea off Scheveningen, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Wattisham |
Destination airport: | RAF Wattisham |
Narrative:Mission : Anti-Shipping. Took off from RAF Wattisham at 1130 hrs local time.
The aircraft was shot down by a Bf 109F of the I./JG 52 based at Katwijk airfield.
Flight Lieutenant Haggitt succumbed to his injuries in the Wilhelmina Gasthuis hospital at Amsterdam on the 9th of September and is buried there, in the New Eastern Cemetery; his crew have no known graves:
Crew:-
Pilot : Flight Lieutenant Clarence Edward Charles Haggitt RAF 63828 [Killed] (NCO:905672 Commission Gazetted : Friday 09 May, 1941)
Crew : Pilot Officer Robert Francis Bennett RAFVR 62299 [Killed] (NCO:977097 Commission Gazetted : Friday 11 April, 1941)
Crew : Flying Officer Charles Douglas Ramsay RAFVR 82992 [Killed] (Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 27 August, 1940)
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1250&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
Royal air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941 Page 139.
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Jagdgeschwader/Inhalt.htm https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelmina_Gasthuis Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
08-May-2016 16:27 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
12-Feb-2018 09:28 |
XindelXL |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Phase] |
09-Oct-2018 19:25 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
24-Mar-2020 16:28 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
24-Mar-2020 16:30 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
07-Sep-2023 07:02 |
Rob Davis |
Updated |