Jack Robert Scarles     Photo: Knud Riis     Updated: 12 JUN 2022
                                                                           
Airman: a014173.htm Surname: Scarles Init: J R Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 138

P_link: p221.htm Plane: HAL JD269 Operation: SOE to PL Crash_site: N of Esbjerg

Crash_d: d140943 Buried_d: b210943 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A. 8. 2

Den 14. september 1943 styrtede HAL JD269 brændende ned ved banelinjen 6 km nord for Esbjerg (omkring her). (Kilde: Kortet Flystyrt ved Esbjerg af Torben Thorsen og Morten S. Jensen)  
Flyet var på en våbenflyvning til den polske modstandsbevægelse. Hele besætningen omkom.
De 7 flyvere blev begravet i Esbjerg den 21. september 1943. (Kilde: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Air Gunner) Jack Robert Scarles, 22 år, var søn af Joseph William og Rose L. Scarles,
Burnt Oak, Edgware, Middlesex, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

Se Halifax Print og folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission.
7 flyvere.

On 14 September 1943 HAL JD269 crashed, burning, near the railway line 4 miles north of Esbjerg
(about here). (Source: The map Air Crashes at Esbjerg by Torben Thorsen and Morten S. Jensen)
The plane was on a supply operation to the Polish resistance movement. All of the crew perished.
The 7 airmen were buried in Esbjerg on 21 September 1943. (Source: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Air Gunner) Jack Robert Scarles, 22, was the son of Joseph William and Rose L. Scarles,
of Burnt Oak, Edgware, Middlesex, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
When day is done and shadows fall   we think of him who gave his all
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 238. 

See No. 138 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * RAF Tempsford * Halifax Print * Halifax - Bless 'Em All.
Roll of Honour, Tempsford * Tempsford Special Duties Squadrons
Halifax II JD269 NF-Q took off from RAF Tempsford at 18:04 on 14 SEP 1943.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)
7 airmen.