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.