Cyril Ernest Wellard                         Updated:  09 NOV 2011

Airman: a050024.htm Surname: Wellard Init: C E Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 100

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

Crash_d: d210443 Buried_d: b040643 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 besætningsmedlemmer 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.

P/O C.E. Wellard blev fundet i Ringkøbing Fjord nær Velling Kirke den 31. maj 1943.
(Kilder: FAF, AOD,Niels Erik Stampe og Bent Bågøe Anthonisen)

Pilot Officer (Air Bomber) Cyril Ernest Wellard var søn af James og Edith Wellard; gift med Betty Margaret Wellard, Boughton, Kent, United Kingdom. (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!

P/O C.E. Wellard was found in the Ringkøbing Fjord near Velling Church on 31 May, 1943.
(Sources: FAF, AOD, Niels Erik Stampe and Bent Bågøe Anthonisen)

Pilot Officer (Air Bomber) Cyril Ernest Wellard was the son of James and Edith Wellard, and the husband of Betty Margaret Wellard, of Boughton, Kent, United Kingdom. (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.