Thomas Mairs Updated: 15 MAR 2023
Airman: e777186.htm Surname: Mairs Init: T Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 138
P_link: p143.htm Plane: HAL DT620 Operation: SOE to PL Crash_site: Off Store Heddinge
Crash_d: d140343 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
"Under en SOE-flyvning til Polen med
våbenforsyninger blev Halifax DT620 skudt ned over Stevns. Flyet nedstyrtede den
14. marts 1943 kl. 21.45
på 7-8 m vand ved Harvig. Alle ombordværende blev
dræbt." (FAF)
21.42 den 14 MAR 1943 af Oblt Martin Drewes fastslår
Luftwaffe Night Fighter Claims.
Se
Google Map p143 HAL DT620. Zoom. SDFE-kort HAL DT620
(Navnet ROSS over navnet MAIRS mangler).
Overblik over besætningen.
Se 5 sider om Halifax II DT620 skudt ned
over Østersøen ud for Stevns 14/3-1943 mest af Niels B. Pedersen (kort navn
5HALsn). Se
FLUKO - tysk kort.
Se
kommentar af Anders Straarup at Sgt Thomas
Mairs må være begravet på Bispebjerg Kirkegård.
Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver: ”I den efterfølgende måned drev 6 lig i land
langs kysten, og alle blev begravet på Bispebjerg kirkegård. Blandt de 6 var
flyets ene skytte Sgt. Thomas Mairs, der drev i land ved Harvig (omkring
her) den 24.
april. Ifølge engelske rapporter blev liget identificeret på
Store Heddinge
Sygehus,
men Sgt. Mairs er dog stadig begravet som ukendt på Bispebjerg.”
(FT 88-31-6)
Kommentarer: Chambers blev begravet i
Fjelie i Sverige og 5 andre
på
Bispebjerg Kirkegård, se PLAN.
Her hviler også en "Ukendt
engelsk flyver (fundet 24. april 1943)
Nedstyrtet med fly,
druknet. Begravet 28. april 1943."
Det kan ikke fastlås sikkert, at
det er Thomas Mairs! Se
tekst og dokumenter om flyet og fotos af Sgt Mairs indsamlet af Niels B. Pedersen.
Sergeant Thomas Mairs, 23 år, var søn af
Charles Frederick og Sarah Elizabeth Mairs, Warrington, Lancashire, United
Kingdom.
Hans navn er
på Panel 158 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere,
der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)
Fra HAL DT620 blev 5
flyvere begravet på Bispebjerg og 1 i Sverige, mens 1 har ingen kendt grav.
7 flyvere.
"Halifax DT620 was shot down over Stevns
on a SOE-operation to Poland with supplies of weapons. The plane ditched on 14
March 1943 at 21:45
in the sea at Harvig at a depth of 7-8 m. All on board were
killed." (FAF)
21.42 on 14 MAR 1943 by Oblt
Martin Drewes states
Luftwaffe Night Fighter Claims.
See
Google Map p143 HAL DT620. Zoom.
SDFE-map HAL DT620 (The name ROSS above the
name MAIRS is missing).
Overview of the crew.
MAIRS-pages
See 5 pages about Halifax II DT620 shot
down over the Baltic Sea off Stevns on 14 March 1943 mostly by Niels B.
Pedersen (short name 5HALsd).
See also a
comment by Anders Straarup stating that Sgt
Thomas Mairs must be buried in Bispebjerg Cemetery - and the reply from the
CWGC!
(Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes:
"6 bodies were washed ashore along the coast during the following month, and all
of them were buried in Bispebjerg Cemetery. Among the 6 was
Air Gunner
Sgt Thomas Mairs who drifted ashore at Harvig (about
here) on
24 April. According to English reports his body was identified in
Store Heddinge
Hospital. However, Sgt Mairs is still buried as Unknown in Bispebjerg." (FT
88-31-6) Comments: Chambers was buried in
Fjelie in
Sweden and 5 others were
buried
in Bispebjerg Cemetery, see PLAN.
Here also rests an "Unknown English airman (found 24 April
1943). Crashed with an aircraft, drowned.
Buried on 28 April 1943."
However, it is not possible to
establish with certainty that it is
Thomas Mairs! An exhumation team worked on 18 NOV 1946, a day with
8 hours of daylight, see
Casualty Enquiry D.122 par. 4.
See
text and documents and photos of Sgt Mairs
collected by Niels B. Pedersen.
The
Canadian Virtual War Memorial has
this about Sergeant Donald Robin Ross and
about others buried in Bispebjerg Cemetery, including Sgt
Thomas Mairs
and
this
-
see Digital Collection Crew List 1943 *
Crew List 1949 *
Casualty Enquiry D.122 * Amendment to D.122
* Funeral Bispebjerg - about
F/Sgt
E.S. Masson
and other crew members,
documents
copied to AirmenDK to make them easier to read.
Sergeant Thomas Mairs, 23, was the son of
Charles Frederick and Sarah Elizabeth Mairs, of Warrington, Lancashire, the
United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 158, among more than 20,000
airmen, who have no known grave. (Source:
CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 203.
5
airmen from HAL DT620 were buried in Bispebjerg and 1 in Sweden, while 1 has no known grave.
See p143MACR about this crew and
FLUKO - German map.
Halifax Print *
Halifax - Bless 'Em All *
Lancaster+Halifax *
Tempsford Special
Duties Squadrons * 35 Airmen shot down over
Denmark on SOE Missions to Poland
Special
Operations Executive *
No. 138
Squadron * RAF
Tempsford *
Roll of Honour, Tempsford
7 airmen.