John Adam Sligo Photo: Knud Riis Updated: 17 MAR 2022 Airman: a014023.htm Surname: Sligo Init: J A Rank: P/O Service: RNZAF Sqdn: 57 P_link: p072.htm Plane: WEL Z1564 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Off Fanø Crash_d: d080542 Buried_d: b201042 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A3. 9. 17
Den 8. maj 1942 styrtede
WEL Z1564 ned
ved Nordby Havn på Fanø (omkring
her)
under en minelægningsoperation til Pumpkin (græskar) i Storebælt.
(Kilde: Kortet Flystyrt ved Esbjerg J. A. Sligo drev i land nær
Ballum Sluse (her).
Han blev begravet i Esbjerg den 20. oktober 1942. Pilot Officer (Pilot) John Adam Sligo, 24,
var søn af Alfred Sligo og Rose Sligo (f. Adam), Gisborne, Auckland, New
Zealand; gift med Marie Theresa Sligo, Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand.
On 8 May 1942
WEL Z1564 crashed at Nordby Harbour, Fanø (about
here) on
a minelaying J. A. Sligo was found drifted ashore near
the Ballum Lock (here). Pilot Officer (Pilot) John Adam Sligo, 24,
was the son of Alfred Sligo and Rose Sligo (née Adam), of Gisborne, Auckland,
New Zealand, and the husband of Marie Theresa Sligo, of Lower Hutt, Wellington,
New Zealand. (Source: CWGC) |