George Winstone Wilkinson             Updated: 24 MAR 2021

Airman: a045005.htm Surname: Wilkinson Init: G W Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 7

P_link: p068.htm Plane: STI N3727 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d270442 Buried_d: b071042 C_link: c045.htm At_Next: Kirkeby

Kl. 21.33 den 26. april 1942 lettede STI N3727 fra RAF Oakington for at lægge miner og bombe
Helgoland med 4 miner og 2 x 500 pund alm. bomber. Flyet styrtede ned i Nordsøen. Ingen overlevende. (Kilde: p068MACR)

"G. W. Wilkinson drev i land på Rømø (måske her) den 6. oktober 1942.
Begravelsen blev foretaget af en tysk feltpræst den følgende dag." (FAF)

Pilot Officer (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) George Winstone Wilkinson, 27 år, var søn af
William Wilkinson og stedsøn af Florence Wilkinson, Kitt Green, Wigan, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
(Kilde: CWGC)

1 flyver fra STI N3727 blev begravet på Rømø. 6 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. 7 flyvere.

At 21.33 hrs. on 26 April 1942 STI N3727 took off from RAF Oakington on a mining and bombing raid
on Heligoland  with 4 mines and 4 x 500 lb. GP bombs. It crashed in the North Sea. No survivors.
(Source: p068MACR)

G. W. Wilkinson was washed ashore on Rømø (maybe here) on 6 October 1942. Next day a German
Army Chaplain officiated at the graveside ceremony in Kirkeby. (Source: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) George Winstone Wilkinson, 27, was the son of
William Wilkinson and the stepson of Florence Wilkinson, of Kitt Green, Wigan, Lancashire,
United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
It is well with you. Among the chosen few. Among the very brave. The very true.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, P 264

1 airman from STI N3727 was buried on Rømø. 6 airmen have no known grave.

See No. 7 Squadron RAF * 7 Squadron Association.
Stirling I N3727 MG-G  took off from RAF Oakington at 21.33 hrs on 27 APR 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  7 airmen.