Norman Lindsay Newell                     Updated: 06 OCT 2021

Airman: a042002.htm Surname: Newell Init: N L Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAAF Sqdn: 77

P_link: p260.htm Plane: HAL LW341 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The Baltic Sea

Crash_d: d160244 Buried_d: b010944 C_link: c042.htm At_Next: Kappel

"Under et bombetogt til Berlin styrtede en Halifax i Østersøen natten til den 16. februar 1944." (FAF)

"Et besætningsmedlem fra dette fly, N.L. Newell, blev den 30. august 1944 fundet ilanddrevet på
Riddertofte Strand. Begravet den 1. september 1944 af sognepræst Albert Madsen på foranledning af
den tyske værnemagt."(FAF)Fundet omkring her. Beretning om Newell og HAL LW341 KN-D fra Ib Walbum.

Flight Sergeant Norman Lindsay Newell, 30 år, var søn af Norman Sidney Weirick Newell og
Mavis Newell; gift med Margaret Newell, Mortdale, New South Wales, Australien. (Kilde: CWGC)
Se mindeplade fra Australien.

Fra HAL LW341 er 1 flyver begravet i Kappel. 6 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. 7 flyvere.

"During a bombing raid to Berlin a Halifax crashed into the Baltic Sea on the night before 16 February 1944." (FAF) The IBCC has operational details at the end of all entries about these crew members.

"A member of the crew of this plane, N.L. Newell, was found on 30 August 1944 drifted ashore on Riddertofte Beach. Buried on 1 September 1944 by vicar Albert Madsen at the request of the German Wehrmacht." (FAF) Found about here.
See in Danish, but with a number of photos Beretning om Newell og HAL LW341 KN-D from Ib Walbum.

Flight Sergeant Norman Lindsay Newell, 30, was the son of Norman Sidney Weirick Newell and Mavis Newell, and the husband of Margaret Newell, of Mortdale, New South Wales, Australia. (Source: CWGC)
To live in the hearts of those we love is not to die.
See memorial tablet from Australia.                    Virtual War Memorial Australia has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 2, P 218.

1 airman from HAL LW341 is buried in Kappel. 6 airmen have no known grave.

No. 77 Squadron - Wikipedia * 77 Squadron Association * Halifax * Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum * Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum.
Halifax II LW341 KN-D took off from RAF Elvington at 17.24 hrs on 15 FEB 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) Google Map 77 Squadron DK
49 airmen of 77 Squadron: 23 buried in Denmark, 4 in Germany, 17 no known grave, 1 prisoner of war and 4 airmen evaded to Sweden.