Michael de Beauchamp Collenette Updated:23 OCT2019 Photo:AS 02OCT19 17 MAY 2021

Airman: a019034.htm Surname: Collenette Init: MdB Rank: Wt/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 61

P_link: p169.htm Plane: LAN W4898 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Kattegat, S

Crash_d: d280443 Buried_d: b060543 C_link: c019.htm At_Next: Frederikshavn, gr. 38

Natten til den 29. april 1943 udførte RAF en stor mineudlægningsoperation over Østersøen og de
indre danske farvande. Mindst 10 britiske fly blev den nat skudt ned over dansk område.
Se Minelægningsområder og Lancaster fotos.

Et af disse, LAN W4898 må være nedstyrtet i Kattegat, muligvis ved Hesselø, som er her.
Alle ombord omkom. Flyets pilot, Wt/O M. de B. Collenette synes at være fundet på havet ved Anholt,
som er her. Begravet i Frederikshavn den 6. maj 1943. (Kilde: FAF)

Warrant Officer (Pilot) Michael de Beauchamp Collenette, 22 år, var søn af Frank de B. og
Marie Nora Collenette, Brighton, Sussex, United Kingdom. Hæderstegn: DFM, Distinguished Flying Medal. (Kilde: CWGC)

4 flyvere fra LAN W4898 har ingen kendt grav. 1 begravet i Frederikshavn, 1 på Bispebjerg Kirkegård i København og 1 i Sverige. 7 flyvere.

On the night before 29 April, 1943 RAF carried out a big mine laying operation over the Baltic Sea and
the inner Danish waters. At least 10 British planes were shot down that night over Danish territory.

One of these, LAN W4898 must have crashed into the Kattegat, possibly at Hesselø, which is here.
All on board perished. Pilot, Wt/O M. de B. Collenette appears to have been found at sea at Anholt,
which is here. Buried in Frederikshavn on 6 May, 1943. (Source: FAF)

Warrant Officer (Pilot) Michael de Beauchamp Collenette, 22, was the son of Frank de B. and
Marie Nora Collenette, of Brighton, Sussex, United Kingdom. Awards: DFM, Distinguished Flying Medal.
Full inscription: Killed in action here after fighting German aggression for three and a half years
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 22.

4 airmen from LAN W4898 have no known grave. 1 is buried in Frederikshavn, 1 in Copenhagen and 1 in Sweden.
See No. 61 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * No. 50 & 61 Squadrons Association * Minelaying areas * Lancaster photos
Lancaster I W4898 QR- took off from RAF Syerston on 28 APR 1943. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  7 flyvere.