Geoffrey Charles Smale      Photo: Knud Riis          Updated: 17 JUN 2018

Airman: a031001.htm Surname: Smale Init: G C Rank: F/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 295 P_link: p428r.htm Plane: STI LJ950

Operation: Drop in DK Crash_site: At Tipperne
Crash_d: d270445 Buried_d: b100545 C_link: c031.htm At_Next: Horne

I forbindelse med en flyvning med våben nødlandede
 STI LJ950 på vandet ved Tipperne (omkring her Kilde:
Christian Ringskou) natten til den 27. april 1945. Flyets bombekaster G.C. Smale blev indlagt på det tyske feltlazaret
i Horne by, hvor han døde den 8. maj 1945. Han blev begravet
i Horne af sognepræsten den 10. maj 1945. (Kilde: FAF)

Flying Officer (Air Bomber) Geoffrey Charles Smale, 32 år, var søn af Charles T. og Edith F. Smale, North Finchley,
Middlesex, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)                                    He fought and fell also for us
Arne Mosgaard om flyvergrav i Horne.

69 omkomne flyvere fra dette og 14 andre fly mindes på Mindetavlen i Rebild. De mistede livet under nedkastningsoperationer til modstandsbevægelsen. Af samme grund mindes de i London.
Se 69 flyvere - St. Clement Danes. Se Google Map Rebild med 15 fly mistet med tab af 69 liv
+ 3 fly mistet uden tab af liv. 6 flyvere.

On the night before 27 April 1945 STI LJ950 landed on the water at Tipperne (about here Source: Christian Ringskou) on a supply operation to the Danish resistance. Flying Officer (Bomb Aimer)
G. C. Smale was taken to the German army hospital in Horne where he died on8 May 1945.
He was buried in Horne by the vicar on 10 May 1945.
(Source: FAF)

Flying Officer (Air Bomber) Geoffrey Charles Smale, 32, was the son of Charles T. and Edith F. Smale,
of North Finchley, Middlesex, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
A devoted, loving and much loved son and brother.

69 perished airmen from this and 14 other planes are commemorated on the Memorial Plaque in Rebild. They lost their lives in supply operations 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.
See No. 295 Squadron - Wikipedia and 295 Squadron at Unit Histories. This Stirling took off from RAF Rivenhall.  6 airmen.