Ronald George Woodfield    Knud Riis    Updated: 10 MAY 2022

Airman: a014104.htm Surname: Woodfield Init: R G Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 149

P_link: p146.htm Plane: STI R9327 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Obbekær E of Ribe

Crash_d: d040443 Buried_d: b090443 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A3. 7. 12

Den 4. april 1943 styrtede STI R9327 ned ved Ribe på et bombetogt til Kiel. Alle om bord blev dræbt.
Alle 7 flyvere blev begravet i Esbjerg den 9. april 1943. (Kilde: FAF)

Styrtet var omkring her. Se monument ca. 250 m fra nedstyrtningsstedet.

Sergeant (Air Bomber) Ronald George Woodfield, 20 år, var søn af Frank og
Victoria Ellen Daisy Woodfield, Luton, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

7 flyvere. 

 On 4 April 1943 STI R9327 crashed near Ribe on a bombing raid on Kiel. All on board were killed.
All 7 airmen were buried in Esbjerg on 9 April 1943.(Source: FAF)

The crash was about here. See monument about 250 m from the crash site.

Sergeant (Air Bomber) Ronald George Woodfield, 20, was the son of Frank and
Victoria Ellen Daisy Woodfield, of Luton, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
His bright translation to home above was clouded with no shadow of farewell
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, P 268. 
At each of the perished airmen at the IBCC see details of this Last Operation.

See No. 149 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * Stirling * p146MACR
Stirling I R9327 OJ-M took off from RAF Lakenheath at 20:39 on 04 APR 1943.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 7 airmen..