Holwert (Holwerd)
Holwert
John Gordon George Hegan
Ernest Francis Sydney Moncrief
Murdoch Gordon McGregor
Douglas Haig Randle
Wellington B.III X3539
This aircraft of 75 (NZ) Squadron, RAF, departed RAF Feltwell in the evening of 29th June 1942, for a bombing mission to Bremen. The Wellington is believed to have been intercepted and attacked by a nightfighter. The aircraft crashed into the Waddenzee, off Holwert. The captain of the Wellington, Pilot Officer Walter Jack Monk, RNZAF, has no known grave. He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial (Panel 116).
According to the Nachtjagd Combat Archive, The Early Years, Part 3, p.42, Wellington X3539 fell victim to Oblt Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weissenfeld of 5./NJG 2, under control of Tiger or Schlei GCI station. The Wellington came down in the Waddensea, South of Ameland Island at 03.08 hrs.
Note.
In the ORB the name of Sgt Randle is misspelt as Randall. Below the two pages in the book with details of the units participation in the attack on Bremen, 29-30 June, 1942:
In the ORB the name of Sgt Randle is misspelt as Randall. Below the two pages in the book with details of the units participation in the attack on Bremen, 29-30 June, 1942:
Sources
John Gordon George Hegan - Online Cenotaph, Auckland War Memorial Museum
Ernest Francis Sydney Moncrief - Online Cenotaph, Auckland War Memorial Museum
Murdoch Gordon McGregor - Online Cenotaph, Auckland War Memorial Museum
Douglas Haig Randle - Online Cenotaph, Auckland War Memorial Museum
Walter Jack Monk - Online Cenotaph, Auckland War Memorial Museum
Bomber Command Losses, Volume III, 1942, p.143
75 (NZ) Squadron ORB, Jan 1942 - Dec 1943, in AIR27/646/11 and 12, TNA, Kew
Nachtjagd Combat Archive, The Early Years, Part 3, p.42
X3539 - RAF Commands website
X3539 - Aircrew Remembered website