Cyril Atherton Photo: Knud Riis
Updated:
06 OCT 2021
Airman: a014187.htm Surname: Atherton
Init: C Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 199
P_link: p253.htm Plane: STI EF505 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Rømø
Crash_d: d280144 Buried_d: b110244 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A. 8. 22
Den 28. januar 1944 blev
STI EF505 under en
minelægningsoperation til Kiel
Bugt
skudt ned af en tysk
jager. Flyet styrtede ned ved Juvre Sande (omkring
her).
Hele besætningen omkom. p253MACR.
Den 3. februar 1944 blev
6 flyvere begravet i Kirkeby af
marinefeltpræst Bukin fra Sild.
Den 11. februar 1944 blev Sgt Atherton begravet i Esbjerg.
(Kilde: FAF)
Han drev ind på kysten ved Vester Vedsted (omkring
her) den
10. februar 1944. (Kilde: Lost Bombers)
Sergeant (Air Gunner) Cyril Atherton, 31 år, var søn af Thomas og Clara
E. Atherton, Birmingham; gift med Beatrice K. Atherton, Hay Mills, Birmingham,
United Kingdom.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
7 flyvere.
On 28 January 1944
STI EF505 was shot down on a minelaying operation
to the Kiel Bay
by a
German fighter.
The plane crashed at Juvre Sande (about
here).
All of the crew perished.
On 3 February 1944 6 airmen were buried in Kirkeby. Navy Chaplain Bukin from
Sylt officiated at the graveside ceremony. On 11 February 1944 Sgt Atherton was buried in Esbjerg.
(Source: FAF)
He was washed ashore near Vester Vedsted (about
here) on
10 February 1944. (Source: Lost Bombers)
Sergeant (Air Gunner) Cyril Atherton, 31, was the son of Thomas and Clara
E. Atherton, of Birmingham, and
the husband of Beatrice K. Atherton, of Hay Mills, Birmingham, United Kingdom. (Source:
CWGC)
"Until" Loved and remembered always by wife Katie, Mom, Dad, Clarice and Tom.
R.I.P.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 2, Panel 124.
See
No. 199 Squadron RAF
- Wikipedia *
Short
Stirling *
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Stirling III EF505 EX-R took off from
RAF Lakenheath at 1846 hrs on
28 JAN 1944.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered
has
this.)
7 airmen.