Frederick Bernard Cleak    Photo: Knud Riis     Updated: 29 NOV 2016

Airman: a014001.htm Surname: Cleak Init: F B Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 75

P_link: p026.htm Plane: WEL P9292 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d241040 Buried_d: b121240 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A.14.11

Den 24. oktober 1940 styrtede WEL P9292 i havet.

"Under et bombetogt med Berlin som mål styrtede et Wellington fly i havet den 24. oktober 1940.
Hele besætningen omkom.

Et af de omkomne besætningsmedlemmer, F. B. Cleak, blev fundet inddrevet som lig på Fanø
og blev begravet den 12. december 1940.
En britisk trawler opsamlede liget af en anden flyver, P/O Finlayson, der begravedes til søs.
Resten af besætningen, 4 mand, har ingen kendt grav." (FAF)

Pilot Officer (Air Gunner) Frederick Bernard Cleak, 30 år, var søn af Frederick og Ethel Cleak.
(Kilde: CWGC)

On 24 October 1940 WEL P9292 crashed into the sea during a bombing raid on Berlin.
All of the crew perished.

The body of F. B. Cleak was found washed ashore on Fanø (which is here).
He was buried in Esbjerg on 12 December 1940.
A British trawler retrieved the body of P/O Finlayson who was buried at sea.
4 airmen have no known grave. (Source: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Air Gunner) Frederick Bernard Cleak, 30, was the son of Frederick and Ethel Cleak.
(Source: CWGC) In peace and honour / rest you here, my son / in silence and eternal sleep.

See Bomber Command No. 75 Squadron and No. 75 Squadron RNZAF.  75(nz)squadron has more.
75 Squadron Association NZ + UK * Wellington Ic AA- took off from RAF Mildenhall. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)

6 airmen.