Alfred Edward Boland Updated: 29 JAN 2022
Airman: a107008.htm Surname: Boland Init: A
E Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 82
P_link: p017.htm Plane: BLE R3821 Operation: Attack DK Crash_site: Aalborg West
Crash_d: d130840 Buried_d: b160840 C_link: c107.htm At_Next: Vadum
BLE R3821 tog del i angrebet på Aalborg, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West den 13. august 1940.
Nedstyrtningsstedet er her.
Google Map p014-024 (Kilde:
Ole Rønnest)
Omtrent samtidigt styrtede
4. R 3821 ned
(her) på selve
flyvepladsen. Flyet eksploderede. Hale,
Oliver og Boland dræbtes alle tre.
(Find nummeret
(1.-11.) i
angrebet på - i tekst fra Skudt ned over Danmark)
Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner)
Alfred Edward Boland, 24 år, var søn af Henry A. O. og
Hilda Boland, Hull,
United Kingdom.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
Bombeflyet Bristol
Blenheim. p017MACR
BLE R3821 took part in the attack on
Aalborg airfield, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West, on 13 August, 1940.
The crash site is here.
See also
Google Map p014-024.
(Source:
Ole Rønnest)
At almost the same time,
4. R 3821 crashed
(here) on the
airfield and the aircraft exploded. Hale,
Oliver and Boland
were all killed.
(Find the number
(1.-11.) in
Attack on - in text from Shot down over Denmark)
Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner)
Alfred Edward Boland, 24, was the son of Henry A. O. and Hilda Boland, of Hull,
United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 132.
See No. 82 Squadron RAF
- Wikipedia
* 82 Squadron Blenheims,
Watton, 1940 * Bristol Blenheim
*
Aircraft
Restoration Company, Duxford -
Bristol Blenheim *
Blenheim L6739 -- Rolled Out.
Photo: RAF Memorial,
Watton by Ole Rønnest
The
reconstructed R3821 that visited
Aalborg in 2000 due to efforts by
Ole Rønnest.
Blenheim IV R3821 UX- took off from RAF Watton at 08:40 on 13 AUG 1940. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) Bristol Blenheim * p017MACR 3 airmen.