Robin Hugh Thomas                                 Updated:   29 JAN 2010

Airman: a122002.htm Surname: Thomas Init: R H Rank: F/Lt Service: RAF Sqdn: 418

P_link: p377.htm Plane: MOS NS906 Operation: Day ranger Crash_site: Grib Skov, Sjælland

Crash_d: d300944 Buried_d: b111111 C_link: c122.htm At_Next: Mårum

På patruljeflyvning den 30. september 1944 til Grove, Aalborg og København nedstyrtede MOS NS906 i Grib Skov sydøst for Mårum.

De to flyvere blev dræbt. Tyskerne fjernede ligene og nedgravede dem på et til dato ukendt sted.

Søndag den 22. juli 1945 blev denne mindesten afsløret i skoven. Metalkorset og stenen viser at dette sted er at betragte som gravsted for de to flyvere.
Her er monumentet ved nedstyrtningsstedet vist på luftfoto og som cirkel med prik i nederste højre hjørne af dette kort. Se mere ved MOS NS906 - også 65 år efter styrtet!

Flight Lieutenant Robin Hugh Thomas, 22 år, var søn af Cecil E. W. og Kate Thomas; gift med Mildred Joyce Thomas, Huyton Quarry, Lancashire, United Kingdom. Hans navn er på Panel 203 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

Airwar over Denmark har mere om dette fly og dets besætning. 2 flyvere. Flere links i engelsk version.

"On a day ranger mission 30 September 1944 to Grove, Aalborg and Copenhagen Mosquito NS906 crashed in Grib Forest southeast of Mårum.
The two aboard perished. Together with the churchwarden vicar Johannes Magelund, Mårum, was at the crash site several times to make the Germans hand over the charred bodies in the wreck of the plane, but they did not succeed. The Germans removed the bodies and dug them down at a hitherto unknown  place.

On Sunday 22 July 1945 at 3 p.m. a memorial stone to the two airmen was unveiled in Grib Forest, where a small memorial plaque had been placed already during the war. A guard of honour from the Royal Air Force and the resistance movement attended the ceremony together with a British army chaplain, police officers and Minister Frode Jakobsen.

The vicar spoke at the stone and mentioned the contempt triggered among the residents by the way the Germans acted." (FAF) See the text on the monument.

Here is the monument at the crash site shown on an aerial photo and as a circle with a dot at the bottom right corner of this map.
See more at MOS NS906 - also 65 years after the crash!

Flight Lieutenant Robin Hugh Thomas, 22, was the son of Cecil E. W. and Kate Thomas, and the husband of Mildred Joyce Thomas, of Huyton Quarry, Lancashire, United Kingdom. He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 203, among more than 20.000 airmen, who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)

See No. 418 Squadron at the RCAF and the 418 Squadron Association. This Mosquito started from RAF Coltishall. See RAF Coltishall - English Heritage.
Airwar over Denmark has more about this plane and its crew. 2 airmen.