John Frederick Wallace Emerson     Updated: 17 JAN 2022

Airman: a002005.htm Surname: Emerson Init: JFW Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 106

P_link: p384.htm Plane: LAN ND682 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Kattegat.

Crash_d: d161244 Buried_d: b070345 C_link: c002.htm At_Next: Anholt

Sergeant (Flight Engineer) John Frederick Wallace Emerson, 24 år, var søn af Egerton Arthur
Emerson og af Constance Emerson (f. Faiers), Drogheda, Co. Louth, Irish Republic. Lieutenant,
26th (Dublin) Co. Boys' Brigade. (Kilde: CWGC)

"15.-16. december 1944 (Kl. 03:53). Sydlige del af Kattegat. Lancaster Mk. III ND682 (ZN- ). 106 BS, 5 BG, Metheringham, Lincs. (Minering ved Gdynia)
5 MIA og 2 KIA (Anholt og Pålsjo, Sverige)

15 Lancasters og 8 Halifaxes skulle kaste miner i danske farvande og i Østersøen. ND682 blev skudt ned i den sydøstlige del af Kattegat af en Ju88 ført af Major Werner Husemann fra I/NJG3 (Grove). Flight engineer Sgt. John Frederick Emerson blev fundet den 6. marts 1945 ca. 8 sømil syd for Anholt, og han blev begravet den næste dag på Anholt kirkegård. Piloten, F/O Edgar Barrett blev fundet ved Kulla Gunnarstorp (nær Kulla Gunnarstorp Slot)  i Sverige og begravet på Pålsjö kirkegård ved Helsingborg den 7. marts 1945. Resten af besætningen har ingen kendt grav." (FT 88-42-38)
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Sergeant (Flight Engineer) John Frederick Wallace Emerson, 24, was the son of Egerton Arthur Emerson and of Constance Emerson (nee Faiers), of Drogheda, Co. Louth, Irish Republic. Lieutenant,
26th (Dublin) Co. Boys' Brigade. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, P 33.  

"15 -16 December 1944 at 03:53. Southern part of the Kattegat. Lancaster Mk. III ND682 (ZN- ). 106 BS,
5 BG, Metheringham, Lincs. (Gardening at Gdynia) 5 MIA and 2 KIA (Anholt and Pålsjo, Sweden)

15 Lancasters and 8 Halifaxes were on a minelaying operation to Danish waters and the Baltic Sea. ND682 was shot down over the south eastern part of the Kattegat (by a Ju88 piloted by Major Werner Husemann from I/NJG3 (Grove). On 6 March 1945 Flight engineer Sgt. John Frederick Emerson was found  about 8 nautical miles south of Anholt, and he was buried the next day in Anholt Cemetery. Pilot, F/O Edgar Barrett was found at Kulla Gunnarstorp (near 
Kulla Gunnarstorp Castle) in Sweden and buried in Pålsjö Cemetery at Helsingborg on 7 March 1945. The rest of the crew have no known grave." (FT 88-42-38)

See  Lancaster * Lancaster photos * No. 106 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * No. 106 Squadron (RAF) during the Second World War * Minelaying areas *  p384MACR.
Lancaster III ND682 ZN-K took off from RAF Metheringham at 00:45 on 15 DEC 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this)  7 airmen.