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Halifax BII HX224 crashed in the Sea of Skagerak 25/2
1945.
The aircraft belonged to RAF 58 Sqn. Coastal Command and was coded BY-P.
T/o Stornoway 16:25. Op: Anti shipping patrol in Skagerak.
Halifax JP172 BY-L reported to have found 9 ships in the sea of Skagerak and to
have attacked a merchant ship that exploded. At 16:25 hours Halifax HX224 took
off from Stornoway.
At 19:34 hours Hauptmann Eduard Schröder of 1./ NJG 3 took off from Fliegerhorst
Grove in JU 88G-6 coded D5+AL with the crew of Hessenmüller, Zeinert and
Brunsendorf on a Y-Führung in Skagerak.
While being controlled by radarstation “Schakal” based at Skagen the Ju 88
claimed Halifax HX224 at 21:25 hours in Pl.Q. DA7 which is in the sea of
Skagerak about 35 kilometres north of the town of Hirtshals.
Schröder landed back at Grove at 23:00 hours.
For a number of years the Halifax was reported as being “lost without trace”. On
14/11 1979 a fishing boat got hold of some aircraft wreckage on position 57`56N
10`04E. In the trawl was found wreckage, machinegun ammunition and a number of
human bones as well as a lighter and a watch. The watch bore the inscription:
Hugh McLean.
On 10/6 1980 Rear gunner F/O Hugh J.A. McLean was laid to rest in Bispebjerg
cemetery in København.
The rest of the crew have no known graves and are commemorated on the Runnymede
Memorial.
They were: Pilot S/Ldr Ronald G. R. Frazer, F/Sgt John F. Lomas, W/O Herbert J.
Arnold, W/O Gordon W. Lee, F/Sgt Ronald W. Brett, F/Sgt Harold R. Hammerton and
F/Sgt John Duncan.
(Library and Archives Canada via Kevin Joynt)
W/O Gordon W. Lee
(Library and Archives Canada via Kevin Joynt)
F/Sgt Harold R. Hammerton
(Library and Archives Canada via Kevin Joynt)
W/O Herbert J. Arnold
(Via Finn Buch)
Rear gunner F/O Hugh J.A. McLean
Sources: Schröder Flugbuch and Abschüssebeteilungsliste, Carsten Petersen, FT.
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