Dennis Sydney Watson                           Updated: 28 MAR 2022

Airman: a007002.htm Surname: Watson Init: D S Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 77

P_link: p396.htm Plane: HAL MZ924 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Smålandsfarvandet

Crash_d: d140245 Buried_d: b130645 C_link: c007.htm At_Next: Bogø

I forbindelse med en mineudlægningsoperation natten til den 15. februar 1945 nedstyrtede en "Halifax"
i havet et sted syd for Sjælland. Hele besætningen omkom.Se Google Map p396 * Maleri af HAL KN-D.

Sgt Watson blev fundet den 9. juni 1945 (omkring her). Han blev begravet den 13. juni 1945. (Kilde: FAF)

Sergeant (Air Gunner) Dennis Sydney Watson, 20 år, var søn af William og Alice Watson, Goole,
Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

Besætningen på HAL MZ924 er begravet i Skælskør (1), Brarup (2), Stubbekøbing (1), Svinø (2) og
Bogø (1). 7 flyvere.

In connection with a minelaying operation the night before 15 February, 1945 a "Halifax" crashed into
the sea somewhere south of Zealand. All of the crew perished.Google Map p396*Painting of HAL KN-D.

On 9 June 1945 Sgt Watson was found (about here). He was buried on 13 June 1945. (Source: FAF)

Sergeant (Air Gunner) Dennis Sydney Watson, 20, was the son of William and Alice Watson, of Goole, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, P 260.  

The airmen of HAL MZ924 are buried in Skælskør (1), Brarup (2), Stubbekøbing (1), Svinø (2)
and Bogø (1). 7 airmen.

No.77 Squadron RAF * 77 Squadron Association * Halifax * Halifax Print * Halifax-BC Museum.Canada
Halifax-RAF Museum * Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum.
Halifax III MZ924 KN-D took off from RAF Full Sutton at 18.05 hrs on 14 FEB 1945.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) Google Map 77 Squadron DK