Walter Ernest Gibbs                              Updated:  02 NOV 2011

Airman: a015003.htm Surname: Gibbs Init: W E Rank: F/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 514

P_link: p365.htm Plane: LAN PB143 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: At Estruplund.

Crash_d: d300844 Buried_d: b170944 C_link: c015.htm At_Next: Estruplund

Den 30. august 1944 styrtede LAN PB143 ned omkring her mellem Ingerslev og Estruplund i forbindelse med Operation 30 AUGUST 1944 - se ruter og tab og Mindesten for 6 engelske flyvere.

Her hviler 6 engelske flyvere forulykket ved nedstyrtning d. 30. august 1944
For fred og frihed de livet gav.

Flying Officer (Air Gunner) Walter Ernest Gibbs, 36 år, var søn af Walter og Florence Gibbs;
gift med Muriel Gibbs, Hull, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

6 flyvere fra LAN PB143 begravet i Estruplund, 1 flyver begravet i Frederikshavn. 7 flyvere. 

On 30 August 1944 (LAN PB143 crashed about here between Ingerslev and Estruplund in connection with Operation 30 AUGUST 1944 - see routes and losses.

Here rest 6 English airmen who died in the air crash on 30 August 1944.
They gave their lives for peace and freedom.

Flying Officer (Air Gunner) Walter Ernest Gibbs, 36, was the son of Walter and Florence Gibbs,
and the husband of Muriel Gibbs, of Hull, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)

6 airmen from LAN PB143 buried in Estruplund, 1 airman buried in Frederikshavn.
See Bomber Command No. 514 Squadron and No. 514 Squadron RAF.
This Lancaster - see Lancaster photos - took off from RAF Waterbeach.
See the Wartime Memories Project, the sections 514 Squadron and RAF Waterbeach.
7 airmen. Lost Bombers has this.