John Ireland Pearson Ford  Photo: Mogens Jeppesen   Updated: 11 JUN 2022
                                                                          
Airman: a113056.htm Surname: Ford Init: JIP Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 196

P_link: p171.htm Plane: WEL HE395 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: At Over Jerstal

Crash_d: d290443 Buried_d: b070543 C_link: c113.htm At_Next: Aabenraa,  R 6-7

 "Natten til den 29. april 1943 udførte RAF en stor mineudlægningsoperation over Østersøen
og de indre danske farvande, hvorunder mindst 10 bombefly gik tabt over dansk område.

Et af disse, et Wellington fly, styrtede ned ved Over Jerstal kort efter midnat den 29. april 1943.
Alle ombord blev dræbt. De 5 omkomne flyvere begravedes den 7. maj 1943." (FAF)
Se Minelægningsområder med området Forget-Me-Not (Kilde: p171MACR).

Pilot Officer (Air Gunner) John Ireland Pearson Ford, 21 år, var søn af Mr. og Mrs. Amos Soden Ford;
gift med Marjorie Bronwen Vera Ford, Hailsham, Sussex, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

Se monument for de 5 flyvere fra WEL HE395 rejst her syd for Over Jerstal. 5 flyvere.

"On the night before 29 April 1943 the Royal Air Force carried out a big minelaying operation
over the Baltic Sea and inner Danish waters. At least 10 bombers were lost over Danish territory.

One of these, a Wellington, crashed at Over Jerstal shortly after midnight on 29 April 1943.
All on board were killed. The 5 perished airmen were buried on 7 May 1943." (FAF)
See Minelaying areas with the area Forget-Me-Not (Source: p171MACR).

Pilot Officer (Air Gunner) John Ireland Pearson Ford, 21, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Soden Ford,
and the husband of Marjorie Bronwen Vera Ford, of Hailsham, Sussex, United Kingdom. (CWGC)
Dearest, you are ever near, as when hopes were high and death´s bright angel beckoned.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, P 165.   

See monument to the 5 airmen from WEL HE395 erected here south of Over Jerstal.
See No. 196 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * 196 Squadron * Wellington *  Google Map p169+MINELAYING.
Wellington X HE395 ZO- took off from RAF Leconfield at 20:49 on 28 APR 1943.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  5 airmen.