Ross Ferrier Philp Updated: 15 JAN 2022
Airman: a026001.htm Surname: Philp Init: R F Rank: P/O Service: RAAF Sqdn: 161
P_link: p379r.htm Plane: STI LK 238 Operation: Drop in DK Crash_site: Near Vemb.
Crash_d: d071044 Buried_d: b150645 C_link: c026.htm At_Next: Gørding
"På vej til to jyske modtagepladser med
våben til den danske modstandsbevægelse
nedstyrtede et Stirling fly natten til
den 7. oktober 1944 på gården Stamphøjs jorder i Gørding
sogn.
Ved flyvraget blev fundet et dræbt besætningsmedlem, R.F. Philp fra Queensland i
Australien." (FAF)
Se mindesten netop
her ved hegnet, hvor Philp blev gravet ned af den tyske værnemagt.
Det er
ca. 300 m nord for Skalstrupvej 14, 7570 Vemb, ca. 700 m nord for gården
Stamphøj og ca. 3 km nord for
Gørding Kirke, hvor Philp blev begravet den 15. juni 1945
med mange folk fra egnen, modstandsfolk og militære enheder til stede. En halv
snes canadiske soldater affyrede æressalut over graven. (Kilde: FAF)
Arne Mosgaard sendte
Flyvergraven i Gørding * Om LK238 *
Flugten gennem et besat land *
Nogen hjalp - Gee.
Pilot Officer Ross Ferrier Philp, 21 år,
var søn af Roslyn Foster Bowie Philp og Marjorie Alice Hewson Philp, Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
Se foto i forsamlingshuset og
mindesten på nedstyrtningsstedet.
Fra STI LK 238 er 1
flyver begravet i Gørding, 2 blev taget til fange og 4 nåede Sverige med hjælp
fra modstandsbevægelsen.
69 flyvere mindes på Mindetavlen i Rebild
og i London, se 69 flyvere - St. Clement Danes.
7 flyvere.
On its way to two drop zones in Jutland
with weapons for the Danish resistance movement
STI LK 238
crashed on the night before 7 October, 1944 into a field of the farm Stamphøj in
the parish of Gørding. A perished member of the crew, R.F. Philp from
Queensland, Australia was
found at the wreck. (Source: FAF)
See the memorial stone just here at the hedgerow, where Philp was dug down by the German Wehrmacht. It is about 300 m north of Skalstrupvej 14, DK-7570 Vemb, about 700 m north of the farm Stamphøj and about 3 km north of Gørding Church, where Philp was buried on 15 June, 1945 in the presence of many residents of the area, members of the resistance movement and military units. About 10 Canadian soldiers fired a salute of honour over the grave. (Source: FAF)
Pilot Officer Ross Ferrier Philp, 21, was
the
son of Roslyn Foster Bowie Philp and Marjorie Alice Hewson Philp, of Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia. (Source: CWGC)
Virtual War Memorial
Australia has
this.
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 226.
See photo in the village
hall and memorial stone at the crash site and Arne
Mosgaard about this grave in Gørding.
1 airman from STI LK 238 is buried in Gørding, 2 became POWs and 4 evaded to Sweden with help from the resistance movement.
69 perished airmen from this and 14 other planes
are commemorated on the Memorial Plaque in Rebild.
They lost their lives on flights with weapons
to the
Danish resistance. For the same reason they are commemorated in London. See
69 airmen - St. Clement Danes. See
Google Map Rebild with 15 + 3 planes lost.
No. 161 Squadron
RAF-Wikipedia*
Roll of Honour, Tempsford* Tempsford Special
Duties Squadrons*
A History of
Tempsford Airfield
Stirling IV LK238 MA-X took off from
RAF Tempsford at 22.29
hrs on 06 OCT 1944. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered has
this.)
Short Stirling. 7 airmen.