William Alexander Oastler                      Updated:  23 MAR 2009

Airman: a019009.htm Surname: Oastler Init: W A Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 106

P_link: p045.htm Plane: HAM AE301 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Limfjorden near Hals

Crash_d: d270841 Buried_d: b300841 C_link: c019.htm At_Next: Frederikshavn

HAM AE301 på en mineudlægningsopgave blev 03:30 den 27 august 1941 ramt af flak og styrtede ned her på ca. 2,5 m vanddybde sydvest for batteriet "Flakzug Hals" i den lille skov på Nordmannshage. Næsepartiet var totalt knust, men det lykkedes tyskerne at bjærge F/Sgt N.T. Powell med svære kvæstelser. Han kom på feltlazarettet i Aalborg, og senere blev han overført til krigsfangenskab i Tyskland.

I de næste dage bjærgede tyskerne ligene af F/O M.J.C. Harwood og F/Sgt W.A. Oastler, der blev begravet i Frederikshavn den 30. august, mens F/Sgt N. Lusher blev begravet samme sted den 8. september efter at være fundet ved Hals Barre, omkring her. (Kilde: FT 89-69-19 og Kenneth Kristensen, Bangsbo Museum) Se mere ved HAM AE301.

Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) William Alexander Oastler, 25 år, var søn af Thomas Chalmers Oastler og Janet Gibson Fettes Oastler, Dundee, United Kingdom. Hæder: Mentioned in Despatches. (Kilde: CWGC)

Airwar over Denmark har mere om dette fly og dets besætning. 4 flyvere. Flere links i engelsk version.

During a minelaying operation HAM AE301 was hit by flak at 03:30 on 27 August 1941 and crashed here into the Limfjorden at a depth of about 2.5 m southwest of the battery "Flakzug Hals" in the little wood at Nordmannshage. The nose of the plane was totally crushed, but the Germans managed to rescue F/Sgt N.T. Powell, who was badly injured. He was taken to the German field hospital in Aalborg. Later he was a POW in Germany.

In the following days the Germans rescued the bodies of F/O M.J.C. Harwood and F/Sgt W.A. Oastler, who were buried in Frederikshavn on 30 August, while F/Sgt N. Lusher was buried in the same place on 8 September after he was found at Hals Barre, about here. (Source: FT-89-69-19 and Kenneth Kristensen, Bangsbo Museum) See more at HAM AE301.

Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) William Alexander Oastler, 25, was the son of Thomas Chalmers Oastler, and of Janet Gibson Fettes Oastler, of Dundee, United Kingdom. Awards: Mentioned in Despatches. (Source: CWGC)

See 106 Squadron from RAF Bomber Command 60th Anniversary and 106 Lancaster Squadron - Aviation Museum. This Hampden started from RAF Coningsby
Airwar over Denmark has more about this plane and its crew. 4 airmen.