Andrew Johnston                             Updated: 06 OCT 2021

Airman: a045015.htm Surname: Johnston Init: A Rank: Sgt 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)

Sergeant (Air Gunner) Andrew Johnston, 20 år, var søn af John og Elizabeth Johnston,
Campbeltown, Argyllshire, 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)

Sergeant (Air Gunner) Andrew Johnston, 20, was the son of John and Elizabeth Johnston, of Campbeltown, Argyllshire, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
His name / shall stand for ever. / That name to us is "love"

He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, P2, P190. 

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.