

Walter Newman
Updated:
06 OCT 2021
Airman: a045016.htm Surname: Newman Init: W
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 (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner)
Walter Newman, 22 år, var søn af Frederick og
Hilda Annie Newman, Kettering, Northamptonshire, 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 (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner)
Walter Newman, 22, was the son of Frederick and
Hilda Annie Newman, of Kettering, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom. (Source:
CWGC)
A smile for all / a heart of gold / one of the best / the world did hold
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 2, P 218.
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.
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