Wellington X HE532

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

Could someone with the appropriate A-B volume, please provide me with a full service history of Wellington X HE532? Thanks.

Col.

[jossleclercq]

Hello Col

HE532 : 311 FTU /15 OTU / 21 OTU SOC 11/3/48

Quite short...

HTH

Joss

[COL BRUGGY]

Joss,

Thanks a lot! I'm researching an incident that occurred on 30-6-1943, at Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. I believe Wellington X HE532 was involved. Could really be any of the units mentioned. More work required.

Col.

[Johnslad]

My father, then FO JA Abrahams 18 OTU, flew this aircraft as second pilot on a 1 hour familiarisation flight out of RAF Worksop on 19 October 1944.
His only flying experience in an (ex?) operational bomber.

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

The incident I referred to was, as follows:

30/06/1943
No.311 Ferry Training Unit, Moreton-in-Marsh.
Wellington X HE532

Aircraft detailed for a non-operational day training flight. The Wellington forced-landed in a field near Chipping Norton after both engines cut, due to fuel exhaustion.

AUS296158 P/O (Pilot) Ronald Alec BINT RAAF - Injured - Face, Lacerations and concussion (later F/L, DFC, 150 Sqn. LG: 23/05/1944)
1253508 Sgt (Nav.) Stanley Charles PARISH RAFVR - Uninjured
R76853 Sgt (Bomb Aimer) J K SMITH RCAF - Uninjured
1322196 Sgt (W.Op./Air Gnr.) Douglas Richard COOK RAFVR - Uninjured
1047264 Sgt (Air Gnr.) Dennis GOLDSBROUGH RAFVR - Uninjured.

Pilot taken to War Memorial Hospital, Chipping Norton, remainder of crew to Moreton-in-Marsh.

Wellington obviously repaired and had later service.

Col.

[Alex Smart]

Hello Col,
Not noted in BCL vol 8,possibly because the a/c was returned to service , or Chorley overlooked it ?
Alex

[COL BRUGGY]

Alex,

Please read posts #2 & 5 (ultimate sentence).

The unfortunate 1322196 Sgt (later W/O) Douglas Richard COOK RAFVR, survived the European war only to be killed during Operation "DODGE", when No.626 Sqn Lancaster I RF159, crashed at Carcassonne, near Toulouse in southern France, on 07/08/1945 - see: BCL6/180.

1047264 Sgt (later W/O) Dennis "Goldie" GOLDSBROUGH RAFVR, later emigrated to Australia, arriving aboard the "Castel Felice" at Melbourne (with his wife, Alice) on 02/03/1964. He died there on 06/02/1996, at the age of 72. He rests in Rye Cemetery, Victoria, Australia.

Col.