John Alfred Knowles                          Updated: 08 JUL 2022

Airman: a019050.htm Surname: Knowles Init: J A Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 199

P_link: p246.htm Plane: STI EF154 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Near Hirsholmene

Crash_d: d011243 Buried_d: b081243 C_link: c019.htm At_Next: Frederikshavn, gr. 58

STI EF154 skulle kaste miner ved indsejlingen til havnen i Frederikshavn den 1. december 1943.
Flyet blev ramt af flak og styrtede ned i målområdet mellem Frederikshavn og øerne Hirsholmene omkring her. Kort efter nedstyrtningen blev ligene af 3 besætningsmedlemmer bjærget, og de blev begravet på Frederikshavn Kirkegård den 8. december 1943.
4 besætningsmedlemmer har ingen kendt grav. (Kilde: FT 89-70-30) Mere i p246MACR.

Flight Sergeant (Pilot) John Alfred Knowles, 23 år, var søn af Eli George og Lucy Mabel Knowles, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom. Hæder: Mentioned in Despatches. (Kilde: CWGC)

Den nat blev også STI EF191 skudt ned ved Hemmet i forbindelse med en minelægningsoperation, se Minelægningsområder og links derfra. Short Stirling. 7 flyvere. 

STI EF154 was to drop mines at the entrance to the harbour of Frederikshavn on 1 December 1943.
The plane was hit by flak and crashed in the drop zone between Frederikshavn and the islands
Hirsholmene about here. The bodies of 3 crew members were recovered shortly after the crash, and they were buried in Frederikshavn Cemetery on 8 December 1943.
4 crew members have no known grave. (Source: FT 89-70-30) More in p246MACR.

Flight Sergeant (Pilot) John Alfred Knowles, 23, was the son of Eli George and Lucy Mabel Knowles,
of Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom. Awards: Mentioned in Despatches. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, P 2, Panel 195. 

That night also STI EF191 crashed at Hemmet in connection with a minelaying operation,
see Minelaying areas and links from there.

See No. 199 Squadron RAF- Wikipedia * Short Stirling. This Stirling took off from RAF Lakenheath.
Stirling III EF154 EX-V took off from RAF Lakenheath at 15:25 on 1 DEC 1943. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 7 airmen.