Mathew Waddel Stevenson Knud Riis
Updated:
16 AUG 2021
Airman: a014168.htm Surname: Stevenson
Init: M W Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 434
P_link: p211.htm Plane: HAL DK261 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Off Mandø
Crash_d: d240843 Buried_d: b020943 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A. 9. 13
Den 24. august 1943 blev
HAL DK261 under returflyvning fra Berlin skudt ned af en
tysk natjager ved Mandø. Flyet styrtede ned vest for øen, måske omkring
her.
Se p211MACR med mange detaljer.
2 omkomne besætningsmedlemmer fra dette fly, F.
V. Messenger og M. W. Stevenson, blev begravet i Esbjerg den 2. september 1943.
Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Mathew Waddell Stevenson var
fra United Kingdom. (CWGC)
C. W. Snyder har ingen kendt grav.
R. C. Brooks, J. Plenderleith og R. S. Welters blev taget til fange.
Det lykkedes piloten, S/Ldr Roy McLernon via Esbjerg og Århus at nå Sverige den
16. september 1943.
(Kilder: FAF og AOD) 7 flyvere.
On 24 August 1943
HAL DK261 on the return flight from Berlin
HAL DK261 was shot down by a German night fighter at
Mandø. The plane crashed west of the island of Mandø, maybe about
here.
2 perished crew members, F. V. Messenger and M.
W. Stevenson, were buried in Esbjerg on 2 SEP 1943.
Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Mathew Waddell Stevenson was
from the United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, P 247.
C. W. Snyder has no known grave.
R. C. Brooks, J. Plenderleith and R. S. Welters were captured.
On 16 SEP 1943 S/Ldr Pilot Roy McLernon managed to get to Sweden via
Esbjerg and Århus.
(Sources: FAF and AOD)
See
No. 434 Squadron
RCAF
and RCAF 434 Squadron 1943-1945.
Halifax
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Halifax-BC
Museum.Canada
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Halifax-RAF
Museum
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Halifax-The
Yorkshire Air Museum
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Halifax Print
and
Halifax - Bless 'Em All.
Halifax V DK261 IP-V took off from RAF Tholthorpe
at 20.26 hrs on 23 AUG 1943. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered has
this.) 7 airmen.