Thomas Kitchener Wright Updated: 10 NOV 2011
Airman: e777059.htm Surname: Wright Init: T K Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 103
P_link: p313.htm Plane: LAN LL963 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Off Avernakø
Crash_d: d160544 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
Under
en mineudlægningsoperation til Kiel Bugt natten til den 16. maj 1944 blev
LAN LL963 ramt af flak og styrtede i havet ved Avernakø.
Hele besætningen omkom. Se
om styrtet. Se
propel som monument og tak til
flyverne. Se
meget mere ved flyverne begravet på Avernakø og
Drejø.
LAN LL963 styrtede ned her. T.K. Wright blev aldrig fundet.
Pilot Officer Thomas Kitchener Wright, 32
år, var søn af Robert Edmund Wright og Rosina Wright,
Walthamstow, Essex, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel
213 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere,
der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)
1 flyver begravet på Avernakø, 1 på Drejø, 1 i
Faaborg, 1 i Aastrup og 3 har ingen kendt grav. Se
Google Map p313 Lancaster LL963.
Se
Minelægningsområder og
Lancaster fotos. 7 flyvere.
On its way to a mine laying operation in
Kiel Bay on the
night before 16 May, 1944, LAN LL963 was hit by flak and crashed into the sea
at Avernakø.
All of
the crew perished. See about the crash.
See propeller as monument and
thanks to the airmen. See much more at the airmen buried on
Avernakø and Drejø.
LAN LL963 crashed here. T. K. Wright was never found.
Pilot Officer Thomas Kitchener Wright, 32,
was the son of Robert Edmund Wright, and of Rosina Wright,
of Walthamstow, Essex, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede
Memorial, Panel 213, among more than 20,000 airmen who have
no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
LAN LL963 crashed
here. 1 airman buried on Avernakø, 1 on Drejø, 1 in Faaborg, 1 in Aastrup
and 3 have no known grave. See
Google Map p313 Lancaster LL963.
See
Bomber Command No. 103 Squadron and RAF Elsam Wolds
Association. This
Lancaster - see
Lancaster Photos - took off from
RAF Elsham Wolds.
7 airmen.
Lost Bombers has
this. See
Minelaying areas.