Rodney Kenneth Helyer                      Updated:  09 JAN 2012

Airman: a045008.htm Surname: Helyer Init: R K Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 218

P_link: p094.htm Plane: STI N6129 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: North Sea off Rømø

Crash_d: d290742 Buried_d: b010842 C_link: c045.htm At_Next: Kirkeby

Den 29. juli 1942 styrtede STI N6129 i Nordsøen vest for Rømø (måske omkring her) under et bombetogt til Hamburg. Hele besætningen omkom.

R. C. Eldridge og R. K. Helyer blev fundet drevet i land på Rømø den 30. juli 1942. Den 1. august
blev de begravet i Kirkeby af feltpræst Bukin, Sild. (Kilde: FAF)

Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Rodney Kenneth Helyer var fra United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

2 flyvere fra STI N6129 blev begravet i Kirkeby på Rømø. 3 blev begravet i Kiel i Tyskland.
2 har ingen kendt grav.  7 flyvere.

On 29 July 1942 STI N6129 crashed in the North Sea west of Rømø (maybe about here) on a bombing raid on Hamburg. All of the crew perished.

R. C. Eldridge and R. K. Helyer were found drifted ashore on Rømø on 30 July 1942.
On 1 August they were buried in Kirkeby. Navy Chaplain Bukin from Sylt (here) officiated at the
graveside ceremony.

Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Rodney Kenneth Helyer was from the United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)

2 airmen from STI N6129 were buried in Kirkeby on Rømø. 3 were buried in Kiel in Germany.
2 airmen have no known grave.

See Bomber Command No. 218 Squadron and 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron Association.
This Stirling took off from RAF Marham. Lost Bombers has this. 7 airmen.