Edward William Swatton                   Updated: 04 MAR 2021

Airman: a019022.htm Surname: Swatton Init: E W Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 408

P_link: p090.htm Plane: HAM AT227 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d190742 Buried_d: b110942 C_link: c019.htm At_Next: Frederikshavn, gr. 23

Den 19. juli 1942 styrtede HAM AT227 i Nordsøen under et bombeangreb ved Elbens munding
(omkring her).

3 flyvere forsvandt i havet. Sgt E.W. Swatton drev ind ved Lild Strand (omkring her).
Han blev begravet i Frederikshavn den 11. september 1942. (Kilde: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Pilot) Edward William Swatton, 29 år, var søn af Herbert William og Martha Swatton;
gift med Catherine Mary Swatton, West Ashling, Sussex, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

1 flyver fra HAM AT227 blev begravet i Frederikshavn. 3 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. 4 flyvere.

On 19 July 1942 HAM AT227 crashed into the North Sea on a bombing raid at the estuary of
the Elbe (about here).

3 airmen disappeared into the sea. Sgt E.W. Swatton drifted ashore on Lild Strand (about here).
He was buried in Frederikshavn on 11 September 1942. (Source: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Pilot) Edward William Swatton, 29, was the son of Herbert William and Martha Swatton,
and the husband of Catherine Mary Swatton, of West Ashling, Sussex, United Kingdom.(Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1,P 104.

1 airman from HAM AT227 was buried in Frederikshavn. 3 airmen have no known grave.

Hampden I AT227 EQ-L took off from RAF Balderton at 08.40 hrs on 19 JUL 1942.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this + Archive Report.)

See No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons * No. 408 (Goose) Squadron RCAF * 408 "Goose" Squadron Association.
4 airmen.