Henry Watkin Pound   Monument             Updated:  08 OCT 2021                                           Photo via Niels Plaschke

Airman: a041006.htm Surname: Pound Init: H W Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 166

P_link: p285.htm Plane: LAN ND625 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Sejerø Bugt (Bay)

Crash_d: d100444 Buried_d: b140444 C_link: c041.htm At_Next: Kalundborg

”I forbindelse med en stor mineudlægningsoperation i Danzig bugt natten til den 10. april 1944 blev
mindst 8 RAF fly skudt ned over Danmark.
Et af disse fly, en Lancaster, styrtede i havet vest for Nekselø.

Alle ombordværende omkom." (FAF)  LAN ND625 styrtede ned her. Se  Lancaster fotos.

Sergeant (Air Gunner) Henry Watkin Pound, 19 år, var søn af Edward Craggs Pound og Sarah Pound, Caernarvon, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

Besætningen er begravet i Odden/Overby (3), Kalundborg (2), Fårevejle (1) og Sejerø (1). 7 flyvere.

"In connection with a big mine laying operation in the Gdansk Bay on the night before 10 April, 1944
at least 8 RAF planes were shot down over Denmark.
One of these planes, a Lancaster, crashed into the sea west of Nekselø.

All on board perished." (FAF) LAN ND625 crashed here.

Sergeant (Air Gunner) Henry Watkin Pound, 19, was the son of Edward Craggs Pound and Sarah Pound,
of Caernarvon, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, P 86.

The airmen are buried in Odden/Overby (3), Kalundborg (2), Fårevejle (1) and Sejerø (1).  

See No. 166 Squadron RAF * 166 Squadron RAF-Lincolnshire.info * Lancaster-BC Museum.Canada
Avro 683 Lancaster Mk X - IWM Duxford * Lancaster photos.

Lancaster III ND625 AS-S took off from RAF Kirmington at 21.25 hrs on 09 APR 1944.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) See p285MACR. 7 airmen.