Roy Hedley David Bouttell      Updated: 04 OCT 2021  Photo: AS 02 OCT 2019

Airman: a019041.htm Surname: Bouttell Init: RHD Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 138

P_link: p220.htm Plane: HAL HR666 Operation: SOE to PL Crash_site: Storebælt off Sprogø

Crash_d: d140943 Buried_d: b291043 C_link: c019.htm At_Next: Frederikshavn, gr. 47

Den 14. september 1943 styrtede HAL HR666 i Storebælt mellem Halsskov Rev og Sprogø, måske
omkring her. Det var på en nedkastningsoperation til Polen sammen med en del andre polske og britiske fly.
(Kilde: FAF og p220MACR)

Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver: "Under overflyvning af Storebælt blev flyet skudt ned af tysk flak på Halsskov Rev." (FT 88-34-16) Se Halifax Print og folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission.

R.H.D. Bouttell blev fundet ved Hals (måske omkring her) og begravet i Frederikshavn. (Kilde: FAF)

Sergeant (Air Gunner) Roy Hedley David Bouttell, 22 år, var søn af  Alfred Frank Bouttell og
Florence Isobel Bouttell, Morden, Surrey, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

2 flyvere fra HAL HR666 blev begravet i Korsør, 1 i Frederikshavn og 1 i Norge. 1 har ingen kendt grav.
2 flyvere blev ført til Tyske krigsfangelejre. 7 flyvere.

On 14 September 1943 at 22.30 hours HAL HR666 crashed into the Storebælt between Halskov Reef
and Sprogø, maybe about here.
It was on an SOE-mission to Poland. (Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes:

"Overflying the Storebælt this plane was shot down by German flak on Halskov Reef."(FT 88-34-16)

R.H.D. Bouttell was found at Hals (maybe about here) and buried in Frederikshavn. (Source: FAF)

Sergeant (Air Gunner) Roy Hedley David Bouttell, 22, was the son of Alfred Frank Bouttell and
Florence Isobel Bouttell, of Morden, Surrey, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
Without farewell he left us with a proud and loving memory. Mum and Dad

He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 133.
2  airmen from HAL HR666 were buried in Korsør, 1 in Frederikshavn and 1 in Norway. 1 has no known grave.
2 airmen were taken to German POW-Camps. See No. 138 Squadron RAF * Roll of Honour, Tempsford *
Tempsford Special Duties Squadrons * Halifax Print * Halifax - Bless 'Em All * p220MACR.
Halifax II HR666 NF-E took off from RAF Tempsford at 1753 hrs on 14 SEP 1943. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  7 airmen.