Alfred Kenneth Wooliscroft                   Updated:  10 JAN 2012

Airman: a051001.htm Surname: Wooliscroft Init: A K Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 7

P_link: p347.htm Plane: LAN PB180 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The Baltic Sea

Crash_d: d270844 Buried_d: b180944 C_link: c051.htm At_Next: Lyderslev

Den 27. august 1944 styrtede LAN PB180 i Østersøen eller den sydlige del af Øresund.
Hele besætningen omkom. Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver:

"382 RAF bombefly bombede de centrale dele af Kiel (her), og 17 Lancasters gik tabt. PB180 gik tabt
over Østersøen, og liget af flight engineer F/Sgt Albert Kenneth Wooliscroft drev i land ved
Fællesskov rev (omkring her) den 15. september 1944.
Tre dage senere blev han begravet på Lyderslev kirkegård." (FT 88-41-32)

Flight Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Albert Kenneth Wooliscroft, 21 år, var fra United Kingdom.(CWGC)
Flight Sergeant Albert Kenneth Wooliscroft, R.A.F.
Født 11.11. 1922. Fundet ved Fællesskov Rev 15.9 1944
Han var ikke bange for at dø.  (Rejst af danske.)

1 flyver fra LAN PB180 er begravet i Lyderslev, 1 i Malmø, Sverige, 2 i Kiel, Tyskland og 3 har ingen
kendt grav.7 flyvere.

On 27 August 1944 LAN PB180 crashed in the Baltic Sea or the southern part of the Øresund.
All of the crew perished. (Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes:

"382 bombers from the RAF bombed the central parts of Kiel (here) and 17 Lancasters were lost. PB180 was lost over the Baltic Sea.
On 15 September 1944 the body of F/Sgt (Flight Engineer) Albert Kenneth Wooliscroft drifted ashore
at Fællesskov Rev (about here). Three days later he was buried in Lyderslev Churchyard." (FT 88-41-32)

Flight Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Albert Kenneth Wooliscroft, 21, was from the United Kingdom.(CWGC)

Flight Sergeant Albert Kenneth Wooliscroft, R.A.F.
Born 11.11. 1922. Found at Fællesskov Rev 15.9 1944
He was not afraid to die.  (Erected by Danes.)

1 airman from LAN PB180 is buried in Lyderslev, 1 in Malmø, Sweden, 2 in Kiel, Germany and 3 airmen have no known grave.
See Bomber Command No. 7 Squadron and 7 Squadron Association. This Lancaster took off from RAF Oakington.
See also Former RAF Oakington and Lancaster Photos. Lost Bombers has this. 7 airmen.