Date: 30th August 1940
Time: 4.00 p.m.
Unit: No.151 Squadron R.A.F.
Type: Hawker Hurricane I
Serial: R4213
Coded: DZ - I (1)
Base: Stapleford
Location: Jacks Hatch, Epping Green near Epping, Essex.
Pilot: Sgt. Feliks Gmur (Polish Air Force) Age 25. Killed
REASON FOR LOSS:
Hawker Hurricane I R4213 was the latest Hurricane to be supplied to the squadron and just a few weeks out of the factory.
This aircraft was shot down in combat with enemy aircraft over the Thames Estuary, London at 16.54 hrs. The Hurricane came down at Jacks Hatch, Epping Green, Essex - aircraft a write-off.
(1) Aircraft code amended thanks to a reader - a Leslie Miller.
Sergeant Feliks Gmur killed in action
Burial detail:
Sergeant Feliks Gmur. Epping Cemetery, Essex
With thanks to the following: The superb work of the C.W.G.C. "Fighter Command Losses" - Norman Franks.
Robert Gretzyngier, Woitek Matusiak, Wadldemar Wojcik and Josef Zielinski for Polish information that we may have used.
