X2986
Crashes > of the R.A.F.
Early in the morning of 21 April 1941, 61 R.A.F. bombers attacked Cologne. Two of the attacking aircraft were shot down by flak, one of which was Hampden I, X2986 led by P/O Jack Cultmore.
It crashed into a building near Berrenrath in the "Engelbert" pit at about 04:16, All crew members met their deaths and were buried in Cologne South Cemetery.
additional sources: Hürther Heimat No. 49/50 from 1983, page 40
Unternehmen Braunkohle , History of a Raw Material, Rheinische Braunkohlenwerke AG 1986
Von Klütten und Briketts, Fritz Wündisch 1964
above:
The crash site of X2986 in the Engelbert pit.
The pit no longer exists and is now a wooded recreational area
left:
The death certificate of Pilot Officer Jack Cutmore, the pilot of Hampden X2986
left:
Pilot P/O Jack Cutmore
links:
Die Grablage der Crew auf dem Kölner Südfriedhof.