Rodney Kenneth Helyer                      Updated: 17 MAR 2022

Airman: a045008.htm Surname: Helyer Init: R K Rank: Sgt 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)

Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Rodney Kenneth Helyer var fra 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.

Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Rodney Kenneth Helyer was from the United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 2, P180.   

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.