Henry Riles           Photo: Knud Riis      Updated: 04 MAR 2021

Airman: a014090.htm Surname: Riles Init: H Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 426

P_link: p135.htm Plane: WEL Z1680 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d300143 Buried_d: b120243 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A3. 8. 22

Kl. 12.54 den 30. januar 1943 lettede WEL Z1680 på et dagsbombetogt mod Oldenburg.
SOS - signal modtaget kl. 16.29 fra en position 10 miles fra den hollandske kyst. Intet hørt siden.
Flyet styrtede i Nordsøen. Ingen overlevende. (Kilde: p135MACR)

H. Riles drev ind på Fanø (måske omkring her). Han blev begravet i Esbjerg den 12. februar 1943. (FAF)
Sergeant (Air Gunner) Henry Riles gjorde tjeneste i Royal Air Force. (Kilde: CWGC)

3 flyvere fra WEL Z1680 blev begravet i Esbjerg. 3 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. 6 flyvere.

At 12.54 hrs. on 30 January 1943 WEL Z1680 took off from RAF Dishforth on a day bombing raid targeting Oldenburg.

SOS - message received at 16.29 hrs. from a position 10 miles off the coast of Holland. Nothing heard
later. The plane crashed in the North Sea. No survivors. (Source: p135MACR)

H. Riles was washed ashore on Fanø (maybe about here).He was buried in Esbjerg on 12 February 1943.
(Source: FAF) Sergeant (Air Gunner) Henry Riles served in the Royal Air Force. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, P 2, P 232.

3 airmen from WEL Z1680 were buried in Esbjerg. 3 airmen have no known grave.

See No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons * No. 426 (Thunderbird) Squadron)
RCAF 426 "Thunderbird" Squadron Association. 
Wellington III Z1680 OW- took off from RAF Dishforth at 12.54 hrs. on 30 JAN 1943.
(Source: p135MACR * Aircrew Remembered has this).  6 airmen.