Alan Ambrose Michael Langridge Updated:
27 SEP 2011
Airman: a085004.htm Surname: Langridge
Init: AAM Rank: Sgt Service:RAF Sqdn:630
P_link: p353.htm Plane: LAN ME650 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Near Skarrild
Crash_d: d270844 Buried_d: b111111 C_link: c085.htm At_Next: Skarrild
"I forbindelse med RAF´s første
bombeangreb på Königsberg
(her,
nu Kaliningrad)
i Østpreussen nedstyrtede
Lancaster ME650
den 27.
august 1944 ved Clasonsborg i
Skarrild sogn. Hele besætningen blev dræbt". (FAF).
Nedstyrtningsstedet er
her ved Sdr. Grene syd for Clasonsborg.
Se også
Google Map 57 + 630 Squadron. Flyverne er begravet på Skarrild Kirkegård.
Se
Flyvergraven, Kransenedlægning
og Mindestue og en propel fra en anden
Lancaster.
Sergeant (Air Gunner) Alan Ambrose Michael Langridge, 19 år, var søn af
Arthur H. J.
og Alice I. P. Langridge, Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom; gift med
Peggy Langridge.
Hans bror Arthur Valentine faldt også.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
7 flyvere.
"In connection with RAF´s first bombing
raid to Königsberg (here,
now Kaliningrad) in East Prussia
Lancaster ME650
crashed on 27 August 1944 at
Clasonsborg in the parish of Skarrild. All of the crew perished." (FAF).
The crash site is
here at Sdr. Grene south of Clasonsborg.
See also
Google Map 57 + 630 Squadron and a
propeller from another Lancaster.
The airmen are buried in Skarrild Churchyard. See
Grave of the Lancaster Crew,
Wreath-laying Ceremony and Remembrance Room.
Sergeant (Air Gunner) Alan Ambrose Michael Langridge, 19, was the son of
Arthur H. J. and Alice I. P. Langridge, of Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom, and
the husband of Peggy Langridge. His brother Arthur Valentine also fell.
(Source:
CWGC)
See
Bomber
Command No. 630 Squadron and 630 Squadron Home
Page, the
No 57 Squadron and No 630 Squadron
website,
the Lincolnshire
Aviation Heritage Centre and
the
Wartime
Memories Project - RAF East
Kirby. This Lancaster
- see photos - took off from
RAF East Kirby.
7 airmen. Lost Bombers has
this.