Home
Allied:
1939-1940 Updated 19/10-24
1941 Updated 28/4-22
1942 Updated 14/7-24
1943 Updated 15/4-24
1944 Updated 15/9-24
1945 Updated 4/12-22
German:
1939
1940 New 30/11-23
1941 New 23/7-21
1942 Updated 24/7-24
1943 Updated 28/1-23
1944 Updated 23/7-23
1945 Updated 16/7-23
Books New Book by Steve Smith
Sources
Contact
Links
Search this
site by entering search words:
|
Stirling IV LK149 crashed into The North Sea 23/2-1945.
The aircraft belonged to RAF 138 Sqn RAF Bomber Command and was coded NF-D.
T/O Tempsford. OP: Table Jam 181 (Drop zone Marie near Hobro)
While outbound LK149 crashed into the North Sea on a position believed to be
56`07N 08`03E, which is a couple of kilometres off Søndervig on the west coast
of Jylland. All onboard perished.
Pilot Eric W. Sinkinson, F/S Bertie R. Hasler, Sgt George Cole and F/S Henry
T. Batten have no known grave and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
On 28/6 1945 Chief Executive Officer Otto Sørensen reported that a grave with an
allied soldier had been found in Beach area 2 of Søgaard Forstrand near
Bjerregaard. The Wehrmacht had buried the body in the winter of 1944-45, and
Sørensen now wanted it moved to Haurvig cemetery. The body was exhumed on 28/6 placed in a
coffin and on 1/7 1945 laid to rest in a common grave with two more bodies that
had been found buried on the beach.
(Via Stampe)
(Via Stampe)
(Via Stampe)
(Via Stampe)
(Via Stampe)
The soldier from Beach Area 2 was later identified as Navigator Sgt Francis W.
Webster while the two other were F/S Colin Blyth of RCAF 405 Sqn and Sgt Arthur
Robson of RAF 582 Sqn.
The graves at Haurvig cemetery
(Sarah Vernon)
Flt.Engr. Sgt George A. Letts
Flt.Engr. Sgt George A. Letts and Air Gnr. P/O Arthur Sharman were both found
washed ashore near Thorsminde.
Sgt George Letts was laid to rest in Sønder Nissum cemetery on 25/2 and on 1/3
1945 Sharman was laid to rest in the same cemetery.
Sources: Report Ringkøbing Police, FAF, Directorate of Lighthouses, CWGC,
Stirling Group, KH.
Back to 1945
Top of page
|