Thomas Charles Wheelhouse               Updated: 11 JUN 2022

Airman:
 a048012.htm Surname: Wheelhouse Init: T C Rank: F/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 218

P_link: p174.htm Plane: STI BF515 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Tågerup Mose

Crash_d: d280443 Buried_d: b070543 C_link: c048.htm At_Next: K - Bispebjerg

 Om STI BF515 styrtet her ved Tågerup den 28. april 1943. Et monument for besætningen er rejst
ved nedstyrtningsstedet. Se foto af de 7 flyvere i Reerskev Kirke.


"BF515 blev over Sjælland angrebet af en tysk natjager, og efter en længere luftkamp eksploderede flyet
og styrtede ned i en mose ved Tågerup. Ligene af 2 besætningsmedlemmer (J.A. Bolton og
T.C. Wheelhouse
) blev fundet dagen efter, og de blev begravet på Bispebjerg Kirkegård den 7. maj
1943." (FAF 88-33-11)
Se Minelægningsområder med området Sweetpeas (Kilde: p174MACR).

Flying Officer (Bomb Aimer) Thomas Charles Wheelhouse, 30 år, var søn af Joseph og Theresa Wheelhouse, gift med Winifred Maud Wheelhouse, Tooting, Surrey, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)
7 flyvere.

 About STI BF515 crashed here at Taagerup on 28 April 1943. A monument to the crew is erected
at the crash site. See photos of the 7 airmen in Reerslev Church.


"Over Zealand BF515 was attacked by a German night fighter, and the aeroplane exploded after a rather long aerial combat and crashed into a bog at Taagerup. The bodies of 2 crew members (J.A. Bolton and T.C. Wheelhouse) were found the next day, and they were buried in Bispebjerg Cemetery on 7 May
1943." (FAF 88-33-11) See Minelaying areas with the area Sweetpeas. (Source: p174MACR).

Flying Officer (Bomb Aimer) Thomas Charles Wheelhouse, 30, was the son of Joseph and Theresa Wheelhouse, and the husband of Winifred Maud Wheelhouse, of Tooting, Surrey, United Kingdom.
(Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 2, P 263.  

See No. 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron RAF * No. 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron 1936-1945 * Short Stirling * Google Map p169+MINELAYING.
Stirling III BF515 HA-n  took off from RAF Downham Market at 20:55 on 28 APR 1943.
(Source:
Aircrew Remembered has this.)   7 airmen.