John Pollard                                                                                            Updated:  06 JAN 2012

Airman: e444014.htm Surname: Pollard Init: J Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 424

P_link: p386.htm Plane: HAL NP947 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Flensborg Fjord

Crash_d: d120145 Buried_d: e444 C_link: e444.htm At_Next: GERMANY

Den 12. januar 1945 styrtede HAL NP947 i Flensborg Fjord omkring her, overblik her - (Kilde: Svend Gram, se Øjenvidneberetning) under en
minelægningsoperation. Se Minelægningsområder.

6 flyvere omkom og 1 flyver blev krigsfange.

Pilot Officer (Flight Engineer) John Pollard, 28 år, var søn af Joseph og Nancy Pollard, Brierfield, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
Han blev begravet på Kiel War Cemetery i TYSKLAND. (Kilde: CWGC)

3 flyvere fra HAL NP947 blev begravet i Aabenraa, 2 i Tyskland, 1 har ingen kendt grav og 1 mand blev krigsfange og ført til Tyske krigsfangelejre.

7 flyvere.

On 12 January 1945 HAL NP947 crashed into the Flensborg Fjord about here, overview here (Source: Svend Gram) on a minelaying operation.
See Minelaying areas. 6 airmen perished and 1 airman became a prisoner of war.

Pilot Officer (Flight Engineer) John Pollard, 28, was the son of Joseph and Nancy Pollard, of Brierfield, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
He was buried in the Kiel War Cemetery in GERMANY. (Source: CWGC)

3 airmen from HAL NP947 were buried in Aabenraa, 2 in Germany, 1 has no known grave and 1 was captured and taken to German POW-Camps.

See Bomber Command No. 424 Squadron RCAF * No. 424 Squadron of the RCAF * RAF - Handley Page Halifax. This Halifax took off from RAF Skipton on Swale. 

7 airmen.