Algernon Parsons      Photo: Knud Riis      Updated: 10 MAY 2021

Airman: a014068.htm Surname: Parsons Init: A Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 75

P_link: p121.htm Plane: WEL BK341 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Ho Bugt (Bay)

Crash_d: d111042 Buried_d: b161042 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A3. 9. 15

Den 11. oktober 1942 styrtede WEL BK341 i havet mellem Skallingen og Langli (omkring her) i forbindelse med en minelægningsoperation over Kattegat.
(Kilde: Kortet Flystyrt ved Esbjerg af Torben Thorsen og Morten S. Jensen) + p121MACR
Alle om bord omkom. 3 af de omkomne besætningsmedlemmer blev fundet.
De blev begravet i Esbjerg den 16. oktober 1942.
Piloten og endnu en flyver forsvandt i havet. (Kilde: FAF) Se Minelægningsområder.

Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Algernon Parsons, 22 år, var søn af Harry Fredrick og
Mary Ann Parsons, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)
5 flyvere.

On 11 October 1942 WEL BK341 crashed into the sea between Skallingen and Langli (about here) in connection with a minelaying operation over the Kattegat.
(Source: The map Air Crashes at Esbjerg by Torben Thorsen and Morten S. Jensen) + p121MACR
All on board perished. 3 of the perished crew members were found.
They were buried in Esbjerg on 16 October 1942.
The pilot and another airman disappeared into the sea. (Source: FAF) See Minelaying areas.

Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Algernon Parsons, 22, was the son of Harry Fredrick and
Mary Ann Parsons, of Cirencester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
To live in our hearts is not to die
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 2, P 223.
 
See Minelaying areas. See No. 75 Squadron RNZAF - Wikipedia and 75 Squadron Association NZ + UK.  
75(nz)squadron has more.  Google Map planesRNZAF
Wellington III AA- took off from RAF Mildenhall. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 5 airmen.