Frederick Herbert Ellacott                 Updated: 12 JAN 2012

Airman: a045013.htm Surname: Ellacott Init: F H Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 25

P_link: p203.htm Plane: MOS DD748 Operation: Intruder Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d300743 Buried_d: b190843 C_link: c045.htm At_Next: Kirkeby

Den 30. juli 1943 kl. 22.30 startede MOS DD748 for at udføre patruljeflyvning over Westerland (her)
på Sild. "Rapporterede kl. 23 motorproblemer og ville vende om. Intet yderligere hørt, selv om
meddelelsen blev modtaget kun nogle få miles fra den britiske kyst. Mosquito DD748 styrtede i
Nordsøen ud for den britiske kyst. Ingen overlevende."(Kilde: MACR - blanket om mistet besætning)

F. H. Ellacott drev i land på Rømø. Han blev begravet i Kirkeby Kirkegård på Rømø af en tysk feltpræst.
Det var muligvis den 19. august 1943. (Kilde: FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Observer) Frederick Herbert Ellacott, 27 år, var søn af Robert Ernest og Millicent May Ellacott; gift med Frances Elizabeth Ellacott, Hathersage, Derbyshire. B.Sc. (Kilde: CWGC)

Se Mosquito fotos og Google Map 14 Mosquitoes DK.
1 flyver fra MOS DD748 blev begravet på Rømø. 1 har ingen kendt grav. 2 flyvere.

On 30 July 1943 at 2230 hours MOS DD748 took off on an intruder mission over Westerland (here) 
on Sylt. "Reported at 2300 hrs. engine failure and was returning. Nothing further heard although
message was received only a few miles out from the British coast. Mosquito DD748 crashed in the
North Sea off British coast. No survivors." (MACR - Missing Air Crew Report)

F. H. Ellacott was washed ashore on Rømø. Possibly on 19 August 1943 he was buried in
Kirkeby Churchyard. A German Army Chaplain officiated at the graveside ceremony. (Source: FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Observer) Frederick Herbert Ellacott, 27, was the son of Robert Ernest and
Millicent May Ellacott, and the husband of Frances Elizabeth Ellacott, Hathersage, Derbyshire. B.Sc.
(Kilde: CWGC)

1 airman from MOS DD748 was buried on Rømø. 1 has no known grave.
See No. 25 Squadron RAF in Wikipedia and XXV Squadron RAF Association. See also Mosquito Photos and Google Map 14 Mosquitoes DK.
This Mosquito took off from RAF Church Fenton. See Royal Air Force Church Fenton. 2 airmen.