Peter Harold Howard Pritchard           Updated:  08 NOV 2011
                                                                               
Airman: a042001.htm Surname: Pritchard Init: PHH Rank: F/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 61

P_link: p030.htm Plane: HAM AD727 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Kiel Bay off Buelk

Crash_d: d110641 Buried_d: b150841 C_link: c042.htm At_Next: Kappel

Den 11. juni 1941 blev HAM AD727 skudt ned af tysk marineflak (omkring her) nær Buelk ved Kiel
under en minelægningsoperation. Se Minelægningsområder.
Dette fly var det eneste af de 20 Hampdens fra RAF, der gik tabt.

Flying Officer (Pilot) Peter Harold Howard Pritchard blev den 12. august 1941 fundet ilanddrevet ved Maglehøj Strand (omkring her). Han blev begravet 15. august 1941 på Kappel Kirkegård under udfoldelse
af al den honnør, som tyskerne på det tidspunkt endnu gav faldne modstandere. Den tyske feltpræst
Graef foretog begravelsen. Højtideligheden sluttede med, at en tysk deling skød æressalut over graven,
hvor der senere blev anbragt et kors med inskriptionen "Hier ruht der englische Flieger Pritchard", se foto.
(Kilder: FAF og FT-86-87-1)

Flying Officer (Pilot) Peter Harold Howard Pritchard, 19 år, var søn af Harold Pritchard, F.R.C.P., og
Edith Margaret Pritchard, Marylebone, London. (Kilde: CWGC)
Headstone sat 04.09.2000 ved siden af den danske sten.
Se de første gravsten fra 1941 og 1942. Se også hans grav i 2009.

1 flyver fra HAM AD727 blev begravet i Kappel, Danmark, 1 i Kiel, Tyskland og 2 har ingen kendt grav.
4 flyvere.

On 11 June 1941 HAM AD727  was shot down by German flak (about here) near Buelk at Kiel on a minelaying operation. See Minelaying areas.
This plane was the only one of the 20 Hampdens from the RAF which was lost.

On 12 August 1941 the body of Flying Officer (Pilot) Peter Harold Howard Pritchard was found washed ashore on Maglehøj Strand (about here). He was buried on 15 August 1941 with all the military honours
which the German still at that time showed their fallen adversaries. The German chaplain Graef officiated
at the graveside. At the end of the ceremony a German platoon fired a salute of honour over the grave.
Later the Germans placed a cross on the grave with the inscription "Hier ruht der englische Flieger Pritchard", see photo. (Sources: FAF and FT-86-87-1)

Flying Officer (Pilot) Peter Harold Howard Pritchard, 19, was the son of Harold Pritchard, F.R.C.P., and Edith Margaret Pritchard, of Marylebone, London.
(Source: CWGC) "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God"
Headstone erected on 4 September 2000 next to the Danish stone. See the first gravestones from 1941 and 1942. See also his grave in 2009.

1 airman from HAM AD727 was buried in Kappel, Denmark, 1 in Kiel, Germany, and 2 have no known graves.
This Hampden belonged to No. 61 Squadron RAF. See Bomber Command No. 61 Squadron and 61 Squadron at RAF-Lincolnshire-info.
It took off from RAF Hemswell. See the RAF Hemswell Association and The Wartime Memories Project - RAF Hemswell. 4 airmen.