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Marcel Stanley Sinclair Photo: Knud Riis
Updated:
08 JAN 2012
Airman: a014027.htm Surname: Sinclair
Init: M S Rank: F/Sgt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 408
P_link: p076.htm
Plane: HAM AE288 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Sea E of Mandø
Crash_d: d090542 Buried_d: b160542
C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg,
A3. 11. 12
Den 9. maj 1942 styrtede
HAM AE288 i Vadehavet ved Mandø under et bombetogt mod
Warnemünde
(her). (Måske omkring
her -
Kilde: AOD)
Alle 4 besætningsmedlemmer omkom. Sgt Jefferies og Sgt Stroud blev fundet ved
Mandø.
De blev begravet i Esbjerg den 16. maj 1942 sammen med F/Sgt Sinclair.
Pilot F/Sgt J. S. Norton blev fundet drevet ind på Rømø den 7. juli 1942.
Han
blev begravet næste dag i Esbjerg. (Kilde: FAF)
Flight Sergeant (Navigator / Air Observer) Marcel Stanley Sinclair, 23
år, var søn af John Murray Sinclair
og Alice Winifred Sinclair, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
4 flyvere.
On 9 May 1942
HAM AE288 crashed into the tidal waters near Mandø on a
bombing raid on
Warnemünde
(here). (Maybe about
here -
Source: AOD)
All of the crew perished. Sgt Jefferies and Sgt Stroud were found near Mandø.
On 16 May 1942 they were buried in Esbjerg together with F/Sgt Sinclair.
On 7 July 1942 Pilot F/Sgt J. S. Norton was found drifted ashore on Rømø.
The next day he was buried in Esbjerg. (Source: FAF)
Flight Sergeant (Navigator / Air Observer) Marcel Stanley Sinclair, 23,
was the son of John Murray Sinclair and Alice Winifred Sinclair, of Victoria,
British Columbia, Canada. (Source: CWGC)
In loving memory of our dear son and brother sadly missed by all R.I.P.
This
Hampden took off
from RAF Balderton. See
Bomber
Command No. 408 Squadron RCAF.
No. 408 Squadron of Canadian Wings *
408 "Goose" Squadron Association.
Lost Bombers has
this.
4 airmen.
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