Charles Clifton                                Updated: 06 OCT 2021

Airman: a045014.htm Surname: Clifton Init: C Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 199

P_link: p253.htm Plane: STI EF505 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Rømø

Crash_d: d280144 Buried_d: b030244 C_link: c045.htm At_Next: Kirkeby

Den 28. januar 1944 blev STI EF505 under en minelægningsoperation til Kiel Bugt skudt ned af en tysk jager. Flyet styrtede ned ved Juvre Sande (omkring her). Hele besætningen omkom. p253MACR.

Den 3. februar 1944 blev 6 flyvere begravet i Kirkeby af marinefeltpræst Bukin fra Sild.
Den 11. februar 1944 blev Sgt Atherton begravet i Esbjerg. (Kilde: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Pilot) Charles Clifton, 22 år, var søn af Charles og Susan Edith Clifton, Leyton, Essex;
gift med Joan Annie Clifton, West Mersea, Essex, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

7 flyvere.

On 28 January 1944 STI EF505 was shot down on a minelaying operation to the Kiel Bay
by a German fighter. The plane crashed at Juvre Sande (about here). All of the crew perished.

On 3 February 1944 6 airmen were buried in Kirkeby. Navy Chaplain Bukin from Sylt officiated at the graveside ceremony. On 11 February 1944 Sgt Atherton was buried in Esbjerg. (Source: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Pilot) Charles Clifton, 22, was the son of Charles and Susan Edith Clifton, of Leyton, Essex, and the husband of Joan Annie Clifton, of West Mersea, Essex, United Kingdom.
(Source: CWGC) To live in the hearts / of those who love you / is not to die / "God bless"

He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, P 2, P145. 

See No. 199 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * Short Stirling * p253MACR
Stirling III EF505 EX-R took off from RAF Lakenheath at 1846 hrs on 28 JAN 1944.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 7 airmen.