Patrick Joseph Cramer Photo: Knud Riis Updated: 07 JAN 2022
Airman: a014123.htm Surname: Cramer Init: P J Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAAF Sqdn: 103
P_link: p151.htm Plane: LAN ED614 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Vester Vedsted
Crash_d: d210443 Buried_d: b300443 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A. 10. 26, A+photo
Se Mindesten for
flyverne fra
LAN ED614 afsløret
den 21. april 2012.
"Under en stor overflyvning af Danmark
natten til den 21. april 1943, hvor bombemålene var Stettin
og Rostock,
nedstyrtede mindst 17 fly på dansk område.
Fra 8 af disse fly blev i alt 40 dræbte flyvere
begravet i Esbjerg. De 37
begravedes om formiddagen den 30. april 1943 ved den største jordfæstelse
af
allierede flyvere under besættelsen. Ved højtideligheden medvirkede en tysk
feltpræst, og der blev
nedlagt kranse fra både den tyske værnemagt og Esbjerg
byråd." (FAF)
LAN ED614 udsendt mod
Stettin (Szczecin) blev ramt af en tysk natjager og styrtede ned
(her) ved Vester Vedsted (her), sydvest for Ribe. Alle om bord blev dræbt. (Kilde: FAF)
Dog døde Cramer ikke ved styrtet. Han blev hårdt såret kørt til det nærmeste
sygehus i Ribe, hvor han
døde
få timer senere. (Kilde: Aase Kjems) Se også
Britiske soldater mindet - en
dreng så ham.
Flight Sergeant Patrick Joseph Cramer, 34
år, var søn af Edward og Anastasia Cramer; gift med
Rose Mary Cramer, North Hughenden, Queensland, Australien.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
I 2013
blev der kontakt mellem Aase Kjems og Berenice, ældste datter af Flight Sergeant
Patrick Cramer. På familiens vegne var hun meget taknemlig for alt det arbejde,
der var lagt i at få mindestenen rejst.
I april 2013 overværede Jim Cramer kranselæggelseshøjtideligheden. Hans
bedstefar var storebror til
Patrick Cramer. I juni 2013 besøgte Gary, søn af Berenice, og hans datter Vester
Vedsted.
Aase Kjems døde 4. august 2014. Ud fra oplysninger fra hende kunne
AirmenDK skrive om flystyrtet.
Hendes datter Birte:4. maj 2015 kom Berenice
og Gary fra Australien for at deltage i mindehøjtideligheden.
Se Patricks Historie.
7 flyvere. Se Lancaster
fotos og Stettin + Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943.
See Memorial stone to the airmen of
LAN ED614 unveiled on 21 April 2012.
"At least 17 planes crashed in Danish
territory during a great overflight of Denmark on the night
before 21 April 1943
targeting Stettin and Rostock. From 8 of these planes 40 perished airmen were
buried in Esbjerg. 37 of them were buried before noon on 30 April 1943 at
the greatest interment of
allied airmen during the occupation. A German army
chaplain took part in the ceremony, and wreaths
were laid from the German
Wehrmacht and the Town Council of Esbjerg." (FAF)
LAN ED614 heading for
Stettin
(Szczecin) was hit by a German night fighter and crashed at
Vester Vedsted
(here), southwest of Ribe. All aboard were killed.
(Source: FAF)
However, Cramer was not killed in the crash. Severely injured he was taken to
the nearest hospital in Ribe
where he died a few hours later. (Source: Aase Kjems)
See also
British
soldiers remembered - a boy saw him.
Flight Sergeant Patrick Joseph Cramer, 34,
was the son of Edward and Anastasia Cramer, and the husband of Rose Mary Cramer, of North
Hughenden, Queensland, Australia. (Source: CWGC)
His duty fearlessly and nobly done, ever remembered
Virtual War Memorial
Australia has
this.
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 24 with this
miscellaneous information: "His previous operations were mainly with an
Australian crew with Marty Ryan as pilot. He had been stood down on the night of
his death
due to his leg being in plaster but because Pettigrew's crew was
short of a rear gunner, he was detailed plaster and all."
In 2013 a
contact was established between Aase Kjems and Berenice, the eldest
daughter of F/Sgt Patrick Cramer. On behalf of the family she was very grateful
for
all of the effort and work taken to have the memorial stone erected.
In April 2013 Jim Cramer attended the wreathlaying ceremony. His grandfather was
the big brother of Patrick Cramer.
In June 2013 Gary, the son of Berenice, and his daughter visited Vester Vedsted.
See Patrick's Story.
Aase Kjems died on 4 August
2014. Based on information from her AirmenDK could write about the air crash.
Her daughter Birte stated that on 4 May 2015 Berenice and Gary came from
Australia to attend the memorial ceremony.
See
No. 103 Squadron
RAF - Wikipedia and Lancaster photos.
LAN ED614 took off from
RAF Elsham Wolds at
2141 hrs. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered has
this.)
Stettin +
Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943.
See also
STI BK714 with account from S/Ldr * Expensive present on Hitler's birthday
* Mads Nielsen * Lynne Truex
7 airmen.