Reginald Alfred Whellams
Updated: 26 NOV 2021
Airman: a050051.htm Surname: Whellams
Init: R A Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 100P_link: p167.htm
Plane: LAN ED709 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Ringkøbing
Fjord
Crash_d: d210443 Buried_d: b170998
C_link: c050.htm At_Next: Lemvig,
Grave 703A
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 fotos og mere i Flyvere identificeret
1 *
2 *
3 *
4 *
5 Se
Helge W. Gram - Lancaster ED709.
Se i Weekendavisen den 6. marts 2015
Tysk blod på tanden
(pdf) af Morten Beiter og reaktionen
Det gavnede at bombe Hamborg.
Google Map p167 Lancaster ED709
Oberst Helge William Gram, Niels Erik Stampe, Ole Rønnest og Anders Bjørnvad
identificerede
Sgt T. Carter og Sgt R.S. Sidwell fra LAN
ED709 og Sgt A.W. Cochrane og
Sgt S.W. Cowham
fra LAN
W4945 som det ses hos
207 Squadron RAF om
identifikation af
ukendte flyvere i Lemvig.
Dele af
agterskytten Sgt R.A. Whellams blev fundet ved
agtertårnet i 1971 og identificeret i 1995. Han blev
officielt begravet den 17. september 1998 - og
samme
dag
fik de 4 hidtil ukendte ved en særlig gudstjeneste på engelsk og dansk nye gravsten!
(Kilder: FAF, AOD,Niels Erik Stampe og Bent Bågøe Anthonisen)
Sergeant (Air Gunner) Reginald Alfred
Whellams, 20 år, var søn af John Edward og
Annie Maria Whellams,
Walthamstow, Essex, United Kingdom. (Kilde:
CWGC)
Se Lancaster fotos og Stettin +
Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943. 7 flyvere.
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! See photos and more on Airmen identified
1 *
2 *
3 *
4 *
5
See Helge W. Gram - Lancaster ED709.
Google Map p167 Lancaster ED709
See
Weekendavisen on 6 March 2015
Tysk blod på tanden
(pdf) by Morten Beiter, in English
A taste of German blood.
See also Bombing Hamburg was
useful.
Colonel Helge William Gram, Niels Erik Stampe,
Ole Rønnest and Anders Bjørnvad identified
Sgt T. Carter and Sgt R.S. Sidwell
from LAN ED709 and
Sgt A.W. Cochrane and
Sgt S.W. Cowham
from Lancaster W4945 as it can be seen at
207 Squadron RAF about
identification of
unknown airmen in Lemvig.
Parts of Rear Gunner Sgt R.A. Whellams were found
at the Rear
Turret in 1971 and
identified in 1995. He was properly
buried on 17 September 1998 - and on the same day new headstones for the 4 till
then unknown airmen were dedicated to them in a special service in English and Danish.
(Sources: FAF, AOD, Niels Erik Stampe and Bent Bågøe Anthonisen)
Sergeant (Air Gunner) Reginald Alfred Whellams,
20, was the son of John Edward and Annie Maria Whellams, of Walthamstow, Essex,
United Kingdom.
(Source:
CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 114.
See
No.100 Squadron RAF-Wikipedia *
No. 100 Squadron Association
*
RAF-Lincolnshire
with RAF Grimsby *
Lancaster *
Lancaster Photos.
Lancaster III ED709 HW-S took off from RAF Grimsby
at 21.59 hrs on 20 APR 1943. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered has
this.) It had a
Rolls-Royce Merlin
variant XX engine produced by Rolls-Royce in the United Kingdom. (Source:
The RAF Museum, London)
See Stettin +
Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943.
7 airmen.
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