Ross Ferrier Philp                                  Updated:  28 SEP 2011

Airman: a026001.htm Surname: Philp Init: R F Rank: P/O Service: RAAF Sqdn: 161

P_link: p379r.htm Plane: STI LK 238 Operation: Drop in DK Crash_site: Near Vemb.

Crash_d: d071044 Buried_d: b150645 C_link: c026.htm At_Next: Gørding

"På vej til to jyske modtagepladser med våben til den danske modstandsbevægelse
nedstyrtede et Stirling fly natten til den 7. oktober 1944 på gården Stamphøjs jorder i Gørding
sogn. Ved flyvraget blev fundet et dræbt besætningsmedlem, R.F. Philp fra Queensland i
Australien." (FAF)

Se mindesten netop her ved hegnet, hvor Philp blev gravet ned af den tyske værnemagt. Det er
ca. 300 m nord for Skalstrupvej 14, 7570 Vemb, ca. 700 m nord for gården Stamphøj og ca. 3 km nord for Gørding Kirke, hvor Philp blev begravet den 15. juni 1945 med mange folk fra egnen, modstandsfolk og militære enheder til stede. En halv snes canadiske soldater affyrede æressalut over graven. (Kilde: FAF)   Arne Mosgaard sendte Flyvergraven i Gørding * Om LK238 *
Flugten gennem et besat land * Nogen hjalp - Gee.

Pilot Officer Ross Ferrier Philp, 21 år, var søn af Roslyn Foster Bowie Philp og Marjorie Alice Hewson Philp, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. (Kilde: CWGC)
Se foto i forsamlingshuset og mindesten på nedstyrtningsstedet.

Fra STI LK 238 er 1 flyver begravet i Gørding, 2 blev taget til fange og 4 nåede Sverige med hjælp
fra modstandsbevægelsen.

69 flyvere mindes på Mindetavlen i Rebild og i London, se 69 flyvere - St. Clement Danes.
Airwar over Denmark har mere om dette fly og dets besætning. 7 flyvere.

On its way to two drop zones in Jutland with weapons for the Danish resistance movement
STI LK 238 crashed on the night before 7 October, 1944 into a field of the farm Stamphøj in the parish of Gørding. A perished member of the crew, R.F. Philp from Queensland, Australia was
found at the wreck. (Source: FAF)

See the memorial stone just here at the hedgerow, where Philp was dug down by the German Wehrmacht. It is about 300 m north of Skalstrupvej 14, DK-7570 Vemb, about 700 m north of the farm Stamphøj and about 3 km north of Gørding Church, where Philp was buried on 15 June, 1945 in the presence of many residents of the area, members of the resistance movement and military units. About 10 Canadian soldiers fired a salute of honour over the grave. (Source: FAF)

Pilot Officer Ross Ferrier Philp, 21, was the son of Roslyn Foster Bowie Philp and Marjorie Alice Hewson Philp, of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. (Source: CWGC)
See photo in the village hall and memorial stone at the crash site and Arne Mosgaard about this grave in Gørding.

1 airman from STI LK 238 is buried in Gørding, 2 became POWs and 4 evaded to Sweden with help from the resistance movement.

69 perished airmen from this and 14 other planes are commemorated on the Memorial Tablet in Rebild. They lost their lives on flights with weapons to the
Danish resistance. For the same reason they are commemorated in London. See 69 airmen - St. Clement Danes. See Google Map Rebild with 15 + 3 planes lost.
See Bomber Command (Special) Squadron No. 161 * Tempsford Special Duties Squadrons * A History of RAF Tempsford * RAF Tempsford.
7 airmen. Lost bombers has this.