Norman William Smith                    Updated: 04 MAR 2021

Airman: a103002.htm Surname: Smith Init: N W Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 408

P_link: p078.htm Plane: HAM AD803 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Sea S of Samsø

Crash_d: d160542 Buried_d: b250243 C_link: c103.htm At_Next: Tranebjerg

HAM AD803 var på en minelægningsoperation mod området Pumpkin
(se Minelægningsområder).
Flyet styrtede i havet syd for Samsø omkring her. N.W. Smith blev fundet i havet syd
for Vesborg Fyr den 25/2 1943. Han blev begravet med militære æresbevisninger fra en
tysk flyverofficer næste dag. Pastor N.E. Mikkelsen foretog dansk jordpåkastelse.

Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Norman William Smith, 26 år, var søn af Robert Norman Smith og Margaret Elizabeth Smith, Liverpool, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

Fra HAM AD803 er 1 flyver begravet i Aarhus, 1 i Tranebjerg og 1 har ingen kendt grav.
1 blev krigsfange. 4 flyvere.

HAM AD803 was on a minelaying operation targeting Pumpkin (see Minelaying areas).
HAM AD803 crashed, burning, into the sea south of Samsø, about here. N.W. Smith
was found in the sea south of Vesborg Lighthouse on 25 February, 1943. He was buried
with military honours from a German Luftwaffe officer. The vicar N.E. Mikkelsen officiated
at the graveside ceremony.

Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Norman William Smith, 26, was the son of
Robert Norman Smith and Margaret Elizabeth Smith, of Liverpool, United Kingdom.
(Source: CWGC)  He is remembered on The Walls of Names
at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 99.

1 airman from HAM AD803 is buried in Aarhus, 1 in Tranebjerg and 1 has no known grave.
1 became a Prisoner of War.

See No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons * No. 408 (Goose) Squadron RCAF
408 "Goose" Squadron Association.
Hampden I AD803 EQ-L took off from RAF Balderton at 22.35 hrs on 15 MAY 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 4 airmen.