John Andrews Tolmie Updated: 09 MAR 2021

Airman: a005001.htm Surname: Tolmie Init: J A Rank: P/O

Service: RCAF Sqdn: 433

P_link: p342.htm Plane: HAL MZ863 Operation: Minelaying

Crash_site: Sea W of Langeland. Crash_d: d170844

Buried_d: b230844 C_link: c005.htm At_Next: Bagenkop

Den 17. august 1944 styrtede HAL MZ863 i havet måske omkring her under en minelægningsoperation ved Kiel. Alle ombord omkom.
(Forget-me-not, se Minelægningsområder - kilde p342MACR.)
Se Halifax Print og folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission * Maleri af Halifax III MZ924 KN-D.

Den 21. august 1944 blev liget af  J. A. Tolmie indbjerget til Bagenkop Havn.
Begravelsen i Bagenkop blev foretaget af en tysk feltpræst den 23. august 1943. (Kilde: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Navigator) John Andrews Tolmie, 25 år, var søn af Roderick G. og Mary M. Tolmie,
Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada. (Kilde: CWGC)

3 flyvere fra HAL MZ863 er begravet i Aabenraa, 1 i Bagenkop og 1 i Kiel. 2 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
7 flyvere.

On 17 august 1944 HAL MZ863 crashed into the sea maybe about here on a minelaying operation
at Kiel. All on board perished. (Forget-me-not, see Minelaying areas - source p342MACR.)

On 21 August 1944 the body of J. A. Tolmie was taken to Bagenkop Harbour. On 23 August 1943
a German Army Chaplain officiated at the graveside ceremony in Bagenkop.  (Source: FAF)
(Canadian airman J.A. Tolmie, born in Montreal 29 JUN 1919, died in the Baltic Sea 21 AUG 1944)

Pilot Officer (Navigator) John Andrews Tolmie, 25, was the son of Roderick G. and Mary M. Tolmie,
of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada. (Source: CWGC) His name is engraved on the
Memorial Wall at the BC Museum of Canada. The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, P 254.

3 airmen from HAL MZ863 are buried in Aabenraa, 1 in Bagenkop and 1 in Kiel in Germany. 2 airmen have no known grave.
No. 433 (Porcupine) Squadron was formed within No. 6 Group, see No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons
Halifax *  Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum * Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum * Halifax Print and Halifax - Bless 'Em All.
Halifax III MZ863 BM-I took off from RAF Skipton-on-Swale at 21.15 hrs on 16 AUG 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  p342MACR   7 airmen.