Lewis Stanley Crawford-Watson                   Updated:  02 DEC 2016

Airman: a019044.htm Surname: Crawford-Watson Init: L S Rank: F/Sgt Service: RNZAF Sqdn: 75

P_link: p244.htm Plane: STI BK778 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: At Beersted

Crash_d: d041143 Buried_d: b131143 C_link: c019.htm At_Next: Frederikshavn, gr. 50

STI BK778 styrtede ned her  200 m nordvest for Beerstedgård, Beerstedvej 3, 7752 Snedsted
syd for Thisted (overblik her) den 4. november 1943.
Se beretning fra Birgit Kveiborg, som boede på gården.

Dette var i forbindelse med den samme mineudlægningsoperation til Østersøen, hvor STI BF461
styrtede ned her ved Kallerup omkring 2 km mod nord. Alle om bord på STI BK778 blev dræbt. Seks dræbte besætningsmedlemmer blev begravet i Frederikshavn den 13. november 1943.
Der blev aldrig fundet noget spor af den syvende besætningsmedlem, Sgt Copeland. (Kilde: FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Air Gunner) Lewis Stanley Crawford-Watson, 21 år, var søn af Lewis og
Elsie Ruth Crawford-Watson, Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand. (Source: CWGC) 7 flyvere.

STI BK778 crashed here 200 m north west of Beerstedgård, Beerstedvej 3, 7752 Snedsted
south of Thisted (overview here) on 4 November 1943.
See account from Birgit Kveiborg who lived on the farm.

This was in connection with the same minelaying operation to the Baltic Sea where STI BF461
crashed here at Kallerup about 2 km to the north. All aboard STI BK778 crashed near Beersted
perished.  6 killed crew members were buried in Frederikshavn on 13 November 1943.
No trace was ever found of the seventh crew member, Sgt Copeland. (Source: FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Air Gunner) Lewis Stanley Crawford-Watson, 21, was the son of Lewis and
Elsie Ruth Crawford-Watson, of Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand. (Source: CWGC) 

This air crash was in connection with the same minelaying operation to the Baltic Sea where STI BF461
crashed here at Kallerup about 2 km to the north.
75(nz)squadron has more, also 75(NZ) Squadron RAF Records from November 1943, find entry of
4.11.1943, and see that this plane with Captain Masters failed to return.
                              
See Bomber Command No. 75 Squadron * No. 75 Squadron RNZAF * 75 Squadron Association NZ + UK * New Zealand Bomber Command Association.
Stirling III BK778 JN-U took off from RAF Mepal at 16.00 hrs on 04 NOV 1943. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 7 airmen.