Jack Robert Scarles     Photo: Knud Riis     Updated:  09 JAN 2012
                                                                           
Airman: a014173.htm Surname: Scarles Init: J R Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 138

P_link: p221.htm Plane: HAL JD269 Operation: SOE to PL Crash_site: N of Esbjerg

Crash_d: d140943 Buried_d: b210943 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A. 8. 2

Den 14. september 1943 styrtede HAL JD269 brændende ned ved banelinjen 6 km nord for Esbjerg (omkring her).
Flyet var på en våbenflyvning til den polske modstandsbevægelse. Hele besætningen omkom.
De 7 flyvere blev begravet i Esbjerg den 21. september 1943. (Kilde: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Air Gunner) Jack Robert Scarles, 22 år, var søn af Joseph William og Rose L. Scarles,
Burnt Oak, Edgware, Middlesex, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

7 flyvere.

On 14 September 1943 HAL JD269 crashed, burning, near the railway line 4 miles north of Esbjerg
(about here).
The plane was on a supply operation to the Polish resistance movement. All of the crew perished.
The 7 airmen were buried in Esbjerg on 21 September 1943. (Source: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Air Gunner) Jack Robert Scarles, 22, was the son of Joseph William and Rose L. Scarles,
of Burnt Oak, Edgware, Middlesex, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
When day is done and shadows fall   we think of him who gave his all

See Bomber Command No. 138(Special) Squadron * No. 138 Squadron * RAF - Handley Page Halifax. 
This Halifax took off from RAF Tempsford. See also  Tempsford Special Duties Squadrons

A History of RAF Tempsford * The Tempsford Airfield Pages *  Roll of Honour, Tempsford. 
7 airmen. Lost Bombers has this.