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”Natten til den 12. april 1945 skulle et Stirling fly nedkaste våben på
en plads ved Holmene vest for Fjerritslev (her). Flyet må være styrtet i havet.
Alle ombord omkom.”
(FAF) 4 flyvere fra STI PK229 har ingen kendt
grav. 1 er begravet i Helligsø og 1 i Tornby.
Flight Sergeant Robert Francis Sheen, 29
år, var søn af Alfred Walton Sheen og Bridget Sheen, gift med Elsie Nellie Sheen,
Ilford, Essex, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er
på Panel 272 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere,
der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)
69 omkomne flyvere fra dette og 14 andre fly mindes på
Mindetavlen i Rebild. De mistede livet under
nedkastningsoperationer til modstandsbevægelsen.
Af samme grund mindes de i London. Se 69 flyvere - St.
Clement Danes.
6 flyvere.
On the night before 12 April, 1945 a Stirling was to drop weapons on a drop zone
at Holmene west of Fjerrritslev (which is
here).
The plane must have crashed in the sea. All on board perished. (Source: FAF)
4 airmen
from STI PK229 have no known grave. 1 is buried in
Helligsø and 1 in Tornby.
Flight Sergeant Robert Francis Sheen, 29, was
the son of Alfred Walton Sheen and Bridget Sheen, and the husband of Elsie
Nellie Sheen, of Ilford, Essex,
United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 272, among more than 20,000
airmen who have no known grave. (Source:
CWGC)
69 perished airmen from this and 14 other planes
are commemorated on the Memorial Tablet in Rebild.
They lost their lives in supply operations to the
Danish resistance movement.
For the same reason they are commemorated in London. See
69 airmen - St. Clement Danes.
See 69 perished airmen on the
Memorial Tablet in Rebild and in London,
69 airmen - St. Clement Danes.
See History of No. 299
Squadron at Royal Air
Force History and
299 Squadron at
Unit Histories.
This Stirling took off
from RAF Shepherds
Grove.
6 airmen.
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