Frank Richard Heeley     Photo: Knud Riis   Updated: 05 OCT 2021

Airman: a014179.htm Surname: Heeley Init: F R Rank: F/Lt Service: RAF Sqdn: 83

P_link: p231.htm Plane: LAN JA972 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: North Sea off Holland

Crash_d: d041043 Buried_d: b040144 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A. 8. 21

Den 4. oktober 1943 styrtede LAN JA972 under et bombetogt mod Kassel (her) i Nordsøen ud for Hollands kyst. Ingen overlevende. (Kilde: p231MACR)

F. R. Heeley blev fundet drevet ind på Meyers Sand (omkring her) syd for Fanø.
Den 4. januar 1944 blev han begravet i Esbjerg. (Kilde: AOD)

Flight Lieutenant (Air Gunner) Frank Richard Heeley, 36 år, var søn af John og Gertrude Heeley;
gift med Mary Elizabeth Heeley, Chorley, Lancashire, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

1 flyver fra LAN JA972 blev begravet i Esbjerg og 4 i HOLLAND. 2 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
Se Lancaster Fotos. 7 flyvere.

On 4 October 1943 LAN JA972 on a bombing raid targeting Kassel (here) crashed in the North Sea
off the Dutch coast. No survivors. (Source: p231MACR)

F. R. Heeley was found washed ashore on Meyer's Sand (about here) south of Fanø.
On 4 January 1944 he was buried in Esbjerg. (Source: AOD)

Flight Lieutenant (Air Gunner) Frank Richard Heeley, 36, was the son of John and Gertrude Heeley,
and the husband of Mary Elizabeth Heeley, of Chorley, Lancashire, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
Always remembered and loved

He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 1, P 47.
1 airman from LAN JA972 was buried in Esbjerg and 4 in HOLLAND. 2 airmen have no known grave.

See No. 83 Squadron RAF -Wikipedia * Lancaster Photos.
Lancaster III JA972 OL-D took off from RAF Wyton at 1855 hrs on 03 OCT 1943 targeting Kassel.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this)  7 airmen.