Reginald James Thomas               Updated:  21 SEP 2011

Airman: a019049.htm Surname: Thomas Init: R J Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 75

P_link: p244.htm Plane: STI BK778 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: At Beersted

Crash_d: d041143 Buried_d: b131143 C_link: c019.htm At_Next: Frederikshavn

STI BK778 styrtede ned her  200 m nordvest for Beerstedgård, Beerstedvej 3, 7752 Snedsted syd for Thisted (overblik her) den 4. november 1943.
Se beretning fra Birgit Kveiborg, som boede på gården.

Dette var i forbindelse med den samme mineudlægningsoperation til Østersøen, hvor STI BF461 styrtede
ned her ved Kallerup omkring 2 km mod nord. Alle om bord blev dræbt.
Seks dræbte besætningsmedlemmer blev begravet i Frederikshavn den 13. november 1943.
Der blev aldrig fundet noget spor af den syvende besætningsmedlem, Sgt Copeland. (Kilde: FAF)

Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Reginald James Thomas, 21 år, var søn af John H. og
Gladys Thomas, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)
7 flyvere. 

STI BK778 crashed here 200 m north west of Beerstedgård, Beerstedvej 3, 7752 Snedsted south
of Thisted (overview here) on 4 November 1943.
See account from Birgit Kveiborg who lived on the farm.

This was in connection with the same minelaying operation to the Baltic Sea where STI BF461 crashed
here at Kallerup about 2 km to the north. All on board perished.  6 killed crew members were buried in Frederikshavn on 13 November 1943.
No trace was ever found of the seventh crew member, Sgt Copeland. (Source: FAF)

Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Reginald James Thomas, 21, was the son of John H. and Gladys Thomas, of Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
                                
See Bomber Command No. 75 Squadron and No. 75 Squadron RNZAF.
This Stirling took off from RAF Mepal. Lost Bombers has this.
7 airmen.