Robert Charles Eldridge                   Updated: 17 MAR 2022

Airman: a045007.htm Surname: Eldridge Init: R C Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 218

P_link: p094.htm Plane: STI N6129 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: North Sea off Rømø

Crash_d: d290742 Buried_d: b010842 C_link: c045.htm At_Next: Kirkeby

Den 29. juli 1942 styrtede STI N6129 i Nordsøen vest for Rømø (måske omkring her) under et
bombetogt til Hamborg. Hele besætningen omkom. p094MACR.

R. C. Eldridge og R. K. Helyer blev fundet drevet i land på Rømø den 30. juli 1942. Den 1. august blev
de begravet i Kirkeby af feltpræst Bukin, Sild. (Kilde: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Observer) Roger Charles Eldridge, 21 år, var søn af Alfred George og May Eldridge, Carshalton, Surrey, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

2 flyvere fra STI N6129 blev begravet i Kirkeby på Rømø. 3 blev begravet i Kiel i Tyskland.
2 har ingen kendt grav. 7 flyvere.

On 29 July 1942 STI N6129 crashed in the North Sea west of Rømø (maybe about here) on a
bombing raid on Hamburg. All of the crew perished. p094MACR.

R. C. Eldridge and R. K. Helyer were found drifted ashore on Rømø on 30 July 1942. On 1 August they
were buried in Kirkeby. Navy Chaplain Bukin from Sylt (here) officiated at the graveside ceremony.

Pilot Officer (Observer) Roger Charles Eldridge, 21, was the son of Alfred George and May Eldridge,
of Carshalton, Surrey, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
Till we meet again   
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 2, P 160.

2 airmen from STI N6129 were buried in Kirkeby on Rømø. 3 were buried in Kiel in Germany.
2 airmen have no known grave.

See No. 218 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * History of No 218 Squadron RAF *  Short Stirling
Stirling I N6129 HA-X took off from RAF Marham at 23:27 on 28 JUL 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this with Notes.) 7 airmen.