Harold Wolfenden       Photo: Knud Riis    Updated: 10 MAY 2021

Airman: a014070.htm Surname: Wolfenden Init: H Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 75

P_link: p121.htm Plane: WEL BK341 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Ho Bugt (Bay)

Crash_d: d111042 Buried_d: b161042 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A3. 9. 16

Den 11. oktober 1942 styrtede WEL BK341 i havet mellem Skallingen og Langli (omkring her) i forbindelse med en minelægningsoperation over Kattegat.
(Kilde: Kortet Flystyrt ved Esbjerg af Torben Thorsen og Morten S. Jensen) + p121MACR
Alle om bord omkom. 3 af de omkomne besætningsmedlemmer blev fundet.
De blev begravet i Esbjerg den 16. oktober 1942.
Piloten og endnu en flyver forsvandt i havet. (Kilde: FAF) Se Minelægningsområder.

Sergeant (Navigator / Bomber) Harold Wolfenden, 32 år, var søn af Harold og
Mary Elizabeth Wolfenden, Hull, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)
5 flyvere.

On 11 October 1942 WEL BK341 crashed into the sea between Skallingen and Langli (about here)
in connection with a minelaying operation over the Kattegat.
(Source: The map Air Crashes at Esbjerg by Torben Thorsen and Morten S. Jensen) + p121MACR
All on board perished. 3 of the perished crew members were found.
They were buried in Esbjerg on 16 October 1942.
The pilot and another airman disappeared into the sea. (Source: FAF) See Minelaying areas.

Sergeant (Navigator / Bomber) Harold Wolfenden, 32, was the son of Harold and
Mary Elizabeth Wolfenden, of Hull, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
God be with you till we meet again.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, P2, Panel 268.

See Minelaying areas. See No. 75 Squadron RNZAF - Wikipedia and 75 Squadron Association NZ + UK.  
75(nz)squadron has more.  Google Map planesRNZAF
Wellington III AA- took off from RAF Mildenhall. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 5 airmen.