

William Alexander Oastler
Updated:
06 MAR 2022
Airman: a019009.htm Surname: Oastler
Init: W A Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 106
P_link: p045.htm
Plane: HAM AE301 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Limfjorden
near Hals
Crash_d: d270841 Buried_d: b300841
C_link: c019.htm At_Next: Frederikshavn,
gr. 7
HAM AE301 på en
mineudlægningsopgave blev 03:30 den 27 august 1941 ramt af flak og styrtede
ned
her
på ca. 2,5 m vanddybde
sydvest for batteriet "Flakzug Hals" i den lille skov på Nordmannshage. Næsepartiet var totalt
knust, men det lykkedes tyskerne at bjærge F/Sgt N.T. Powell med svære
kvæstelser. Han kom på feltlazarettet i Aalborg, og senere blev han overført til
Tyske krigsfangelejre.
I de næste dage bjærgede tyskerne ligene af F/O
M.J.C. Harwood og F/Sgt W.A. Oastler, der blev
begravet i Frederikshavn den 30.
august, mens F/Sgt N. Lusher blev begravet samme sted den 8. september efter at
være fundet ved Hals Barre, omkring
her. (Kilde: FT 89-69-19 og Kenneth Kristensen,
Kystmuseet Bangsbo)
Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner)
William Alexander Oastler, 25 år, var søn af
Thomas Chalmers Oastler og
Janet Gibson Fettes Oastler, Dundee, United Kingdom.
Hæder: Mentioned in
Despatches. (Kilde: CWGC) 4 flyvere.
During a minelaying operation
HAM AE301 was hit by flak at 03:30 on
27 August 1941 and crashed
here
into the Limfjorden at a depth of about 2.5 m southwest of the battery "Flakzug Hals"
in the little
wood at Nordmannshage. The nose of the plane was totally crushed,
but the Germans managed to
rescue F/Sgt N.T. Powell, who was badly injured. He
was taken to the German field hospital in Aalborg. Later he was
taken to
German POW-Camps.
In the following days the Germans rescued the
bodies of F/O M.J.C. Harwood and F/Sgt W.A. Oastler,
who were buried in
Frederikshavn on 30 August, while F/Sgt N. Lusher was buried in the same place
on 8
September after he was found at Hals Barre, about
here.
(Source: FT-89-69-19 and Kenneth Kristensen,
Kystmuseet Bangsbo)
Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner)
William Alexander Oastler, 25, was the son of
Thomas Chalmers Oastler, and of
Janet Gibson Fettes Oastler, of Dundee, United Kingdom.
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, P 80.
Awards: Mentioned in
Despatches. (Source: CWGC) "I know that my
redeemer liveth"
Hampden I
AE301 ZN- took off from
RAF Coningsby at 22:00 on 26 AUG 1941. (Source: Aircrew
Remembered has
this.)
See RAF
Coningsby at
RAF-Lincolnshire-info and RAF Coningsby
2018.
See No. 106
Squadron RAF - Wikipedia. See
No. 106
Squadron (RAF) during the Second World War. See
Google Map RAF-Coningsby. 4 airmen.
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