Raymond George Elkins Photo: Knud Riis Updated: 07 JAN 2022
Airman: a014125.htm Surname: Elkins Init: R G Rank: Sgt Service: RAF 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. 21, 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
(omkring
her), sydvest for Ribe. Alle om bord blev dræbt. (Kilde: FAF)
Sergeant (Air Gunner) Raymond George Elkins,
23 år, var søn af Sidney og Gertrude Annie Elkins, Abertillery,
Monmouthshire, United Kingdom.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
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)
Sergeant (Air Gunner) Raymond George Elkins,
23, was the son of Sidney and Gertrude Annie Elkins,
of Abertillery, Monmouthshire,
United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
Deep in our hearts a memory is kept of one we loved and will never forget
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 32.
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.