William George Newton                     Updated: 12 DEC 2021
                                                                            
Airman: a045001.htm Surname: Newton Init: W G Rank: LAC Service: RAF Sqdn: 51

P_link: p002.htm Plane: WHI N1405 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Off Morsum, Sylt

Crash_d: d190340 Buried_d: b280540 C_link: c045.htm At_Next: Kirkeby

Den 19. marts 1940 styrtede WHI N1405 i Nordsøen ved Sild (den tyske ø syd for Rømø).
Hele besætningen omkom.

Wireless Operator William George Newton blev fundet ilanddrevet på stranden på Rømø (måske
omkring her) den 26. maj 1940. Ved den af værnemagten arrangerede militærbegravelse den 28. maj
foretog sognepræst R. Jørgensen jordpåkastelsen.

Leading Aircraftman (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) William George Newton, 19 år, var søn
af George Isaac Newton og Lilian Newton, Liverpool; nevø af Mrs. E. Newton, Walton, Liverpool,
United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

Bertram David Shepperson forsvandt i havet. John Edward Baskerville, Leslie Close og Emery Orville Fennell ligger begravet i Kiel i Tyskland. (Kilde: FAF) 5 flyvere. Se Google Map 51 Squadron.

On 19 March 1940 WHI N1405 crashed into the North Sea at Sylt (the German island south of Rømø). All of the crew perished.
On 26 May 1940 Wireless Operator William George Newton was found drifted ashore on Rømø
(maybe about here). On 28 May the Wehrmacht carried out a military burial where Vicar R. Jørgensen officiated at the graveside.

Leading Aircraftman (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) William George Newton, 19, was the son of George Isaac Newton and Lilian Newton, of Liverpool; nephew of Mrs. E. Newton, of Walton, Liverpool, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC) "Into thy hands" / we commit thee / duty nobly done
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, P 2, P 218.   

Bertram David Shepperson disappeared at sea. John Edward Baskerville, Leslie Close and
Emery Orville Fennell are buried in Kiel in Germany. (Source: FAF)
Whitley V N1405 MH-? from No, 51 Squadron RAF took off from RAF Dishforth at 20:35 on 19 MAR 1940. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this + Archive Report.) 
See Whitley * The 51 Squadron Website *  Google Map 51 Squadron * p002MACR. 5 airmen.