Harold de Gray Griffiths Updated: 01 OCT 2011
Airman: a003016.htm Surname: Griffiths Init: HDG Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 57
P_link: p322.htm Plane: LAN ND960 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: At Nakke/Emtekær
Crash_d: d220544 Buried_d: b220544 C_link: c003.htm At_Next: Assens
”Natten til den 22. maj 1944 nedstyrtede et Lancaster fly på
mineudlægningsoperation til Kiel Bugt (her) på en mark ved Nakke/Emtekær, Tanderup
Sogn. Alle ombordværende blev dræbt.
H. de Gray Griffiths og C.J. Woodmass blev begravet den 22. maj 1944, mens der ikke foreligger oplysninger om begravelsesdatoen for de øvrige. Begravelserne synes at være foretaget af den tyske værnemagt.” (FAF)
Sergeant (Air Gunner) Harold de Gray Griffiths
var fra United Kingdom.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
Se styrtet oplevet af 8-årig dreng, mere om flystyrtet og Jørgen Brandt
og
afsløring af mindesten.
Se monument
for de 7 flyvere fra LAN ND960
rejst
her i 1946 og
Google Map 57 + 630 Squadron.
7 flyvere.
“On the night before 22 May, 1944, a Lancaster on a mine laying operation to
Kiel Bay
(here)
crashed into a field at Nakke/Emtekær, the parish of Tanderup. All
on board were killed.
H. de Gray Griffiths and C.J. Woodmass were buried on 22 May, 1944, while there is no information about date of burial for the others. The burials appear to have been carried out by the German Wehrmacht.” (FAF)
Sergeant (Air Gunner) Harold de Gray Griffiths was from the United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
See The crash experienced by a boy, 8
years old, more about the air crash and
Jørgen Brandt and
Memorial stone unveiled at Emtekær.
See monument
to the 7 airmen from LAN ND960
erected
here in 1946 and
Google Map 57 + 630 Squadron. All of them were buried in Assens.
See Bomber
Command No. 57 Squadron *
No 57 Squadron and No 630 Squadron *
Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre.
The Wartime Memories Project - No. 57 Squadron RAF *
No.57 Squadron in
Wikipedia. This Lancaster
- see Lancaster photos - took off from
RAF East Kirkby.
7 airmen. Lost Bombers has
this.