John Mortimer Blundell  Photo: Knud Riis  Updated:  31 MAR 2013

Airman: a014010.htm Surname: Blundell Init: J M Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 139

P_link: p037.htm Plane: BLE V6176 Operation: Anti ship Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d300741 Buried_d: b180841 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A. 14. 14

Den 30. juli 1941 styrtede BLE V6176 i Nordsøen under et dag-bombetogt til byer og mål
i NV Tyskland. Ingen overlevende. (Kilde: MACR)

Sgt Blundell drev ind lige nord for Nordmandskrogen ved Nymindegab (omkring her).
Han blev begravet den 18. august 1941 sammen med 3 andre allierede flyvere.
Fra dansk side deltog denne dag i højtideligheden borgmester M. Mortensen,
kommunaldirektør H. Nielsen, politimester Aksel Th. B. Hebo og kaptajn Mourier.
De nedlagde alle kranse.  (Kilde: FAF)

Sergeant John Mortimer Blundell, 28 år, var søn af Ernest Allan Blundell og
Gertrude Annie Blundell, Eltham, London, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

1 flyver fra BLE V6176 blev begravet i Esbjerg. 2 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. 3 flyvere.

On 30 July 1941 BLE V6176 crashed in the North Sea on a day bombing raid on towns
and targets in N.W. Germany. No survivors. (Source: MACR)

Sgt Blundell was washed ashore north of Nordmandskrogen near Nymindegab (about here).
On 18 August 1941 he and 3 other Allied airmen were buried in Esbjerg. Mayor M. Mortensen, chief executive H. Nielsen, chief constable Aksel Th. B. Hebo and Captain Mourier attended
the ceremony from the Danish side. Each of them laid a wreath. (Source: FAF)

Sergeant John Mortimer Blundell, 28, was the son of Ernest Allan Blundell and
Gertrude Annie Blundell, of Eltham, London, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)

1 airman from BLE V6176 was buried in Esbjerg. 2 airmen have no known grave.

Bomber Command No. 139 Squadron * No. 139 Squadron RAF *
This Bristol Blenheim took off from Aylsham west of RAF Oulton. See the Blenheim Society. 3 airmen.