Alan Irwin Parkinson       Photo: Knud Riis   Updated: 10 MAY 2021

Airman: a014059.htm Surname: Parkinson Init: A I Rank: Sgt Service: RNZAF Sqdn: 218

P_link: p118.htm Plane: STI W7613 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Juvre Dyb at Rømø

Crash_d: d011042 Buried_d: b301042 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A3. 8. 3

"På bombetogt mod Hearnwyk ved Lübeck nedstyrtede et Stirling fly i Nordsøen den 1. oktober 1942.  Alle 8 om bord omkom.
F/Lt Du Toit og Wing Commander Read blev indbragt fra Hviding (fundet måske omkring her) og begravet
den 20. oktober 1942. Sgt Parkinson inddrev ved Vejers strand (omkring her) og begravedes den 30.
oktober 1942. - Den øvrige besætning har ingen kendt grav." (FAF) "Stirling Mk. I, W7613, styrtede i Nordsøen, formodentlig ud for Mandø." (p118MACR) Forklarer hvorfor 2 blev indbragt fra Hviding og 1 fra Vejers til Esbjerg.

Sergeant (Air Gunner) Alan Irwin Parkinson, 22 år, var søn af Alan Ross Parkinson og
Irene Althea Parkinson, St. Albans, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. (Kilde: CWGC)

Fra STI W7613 er 3 flyvere begravet i Esbjerg og 5 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. 8 flyvere.

On a bombing raid on Hearnwyk at Lübeck a Stirling crashed into the North Sea on 1 October 1942.
All 8 on board perished.
F/Lt Du Toit and Wing Commander Read were taken from Hviding (found maybe about here) to Esbjerg
and buried on 20 October 1942. Sgt Parkinson drifted ashore at Vejers (about here) and was buried on
30 October 1942. - The rest of the crew have no known graves. (Source: FAF) "Stirling Mk. I, W7613
crashed in the North Sea, off Mandø Island presumed." (p118MACR) Explains why 3 airmen were found
and taken to Esbjerg.

Sergeant (Air Gunner) Alan Irwin Parkinson, 22, was the son of Alan Ross Parkinson and
Irene Althea Parkinson, of St. Albans, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 2,  P 223. 

3 airmen from STI W7613 were buried in Esbjerg, and 5 others have no known graves.

See  No. 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron RAF * No. 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron Association * Short Stirling 
Stirling I W7613 HA-N took off from RAF Downham Market at 19.48 hours on 01 OCT 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  7 airmen.
8 airmen.