Bernard Francis Myers                     Updated:  09 NOV 2011

Airman: a050023.htm Surname: Myers Init: B F Rank: F/Lt Service: RAAF Sqdn: 100

P_link: p167.htm Plane: LAN ED709 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Ringkøbing Fjord

Crash_d: d210443 Buried_d: b240443 C_link: c050.htm At_Next: Lemvig

Efter at have bombet Stettin blev Lancaster ED 709 på hjemvejen ramt af flak ved Jyllands vestkyst.
Kl. 03:28 styrtede det i Ringkøbing Fjord på lavt vand her ca. 600 m fra kysten. Alle 7 besætnings- medlemmer blev dræbt ved styrtet. 1 mand har ikke nogen kendt grav. De 6 andre blev begravet
efterhånden som de blev fundet -  Sgt R.A. Whellams i 1998! Se Stettin + Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943.

F/Lt B.F. Myers blev fundet af Værnemagten kort efter styrtet.
Han blev begravet i Lemvig af pastor J. Bendsen den 24. april 1943.
(Kilder: FAF, AOD,Niels Erik Stampe og Bent Bågøe Anthonisen)                                               
Flight Lieutenant (Navigator) Bernard Francis Myers, 23 år, var søn af Francis og Kate Selina Myers, Eastwood, New South Wales, Australia. (Kilde: CWGC)

7 flyvere. Se Lancaster fotos og  Stettin + Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943.

Returning from a bombing raid to Stettin Lancaster ED 709 was hit by flak at the west coast of Jutland.
At 03:28 it crashed into the shallow waters of the Ringkøbing Fjord here about 600 m off the coast. All 7 members of the crew perished in the crash. 1 man has no known grave. The 6 others were buried in the course of time when they were found - Sgt R.A. Whellams in 1998!

F/Lt B.F. Myers was found by the Wehrmacht shortly after the crash.
The Reverend J. Bendsen officiated at the graveside ceremony in Lemvig on 24 April, 1943.
(Sources: FAF, AOD, Niels Erik Stampe and Bent Bågøe Anthonisen)

Flight Lieutenant (Navigator) Bernard Francis Myers, 23, was the son of Francis and Kate Selina Myers,
of Eastwood, New South Wales, Australia. (Source: CWGC)

See RAF - No. 100 Squadron * No.100 Squadron RAF * RAF-Lincolnshire with RAF Grimsby.
This Lancaster took off from RAF Grimsby. See Lancaster Photos.
7 airmen. Lost Bombers has this. See Stettin + Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943.