

Clifford Walker
Updated: 07 JAN 2022
Airman: a048006.htm Surname: Walker Init: C
Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 100
P_link: p156.htm
Plane: LAN ED557 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Storebælt
Crash_d: d200443 Buried_d: b010543
C_link: c048.htm At_Next: K - Bispebjerg
Den 21. april 1943 kl. 02.10 styrtede
LAN ED557 ned i Storebælt
på hjemturen fra
Stettin (Szczecin).
Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver:
"20.-21. april 1943 (02.10) Storebælt. Lancaster B.III ED557 (11W-Y). 100 BS, 1 BG, Waltham
(Grimsby), Lincs. (Stettin) 6 MIA og 1 MA
(Bispebjerg).
Flyet havde over radioen meddelt, at det var ramt af
flak over målområdet. Under returflyvning blev flere
fly
rapporteret nedskudt over Storebælt, og ED557 var et
af disse fly.
Liget af bombekasteren, Sgt. Clifford Walker, blev fundet i Samsø
Bælt den 28. april. Resten af besætningen er aldrig
fundet." (FT 88-32-8)
Sergeant (Bomb Aimer) Clifford Walker, 20
år, var søn af Robert Myles Walker og Amy Walker,
Cornsay Colliery, Co. Durham,
United Kingdom.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
Han blev begravet på Bispebjerg Kirkegård i København den 1. maj 1943. (Kilde:
FAF) 7 flyvere. Se Lancaster
fotos og Stettin +
Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943.
At 02:10 on 21 April 1943
LAN ED557 crashed into the Storebælt maybe about
here on
the return trip from
Stettin
(Szczecin).
(Danish) Aviation Historical Review:
"20 -21 April 1943 (02.10) Storebælt. Lancaster B.III ED557 (11W-Y). 100 BS, 1 BG, Waltham
(Grimsby), Lincs. (Stettin) 6 MIA and 1 MA
(Bispebjerg).
Over the radio the plane had reported that it had been hit by flak in the target
area. Several planes
were reported shot down over the Storebælt on the return flight. ED557 was one
of these planes.
The body of Sergeant (Bomb Aimer) Clifford
Walker was found in the Samsø Bælt on 28 April.
The rest of the crew have never been found. " (FT 88-32-8)
Sergeant (Bomb Aimer) Clifford Walker, 20,
was the son of Robert Myles Walker and Amy Walker,
of Cornsay Colliery, Co.
Durham, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He was buried in Bispebjerg Churchyard in Copenhagen on 1 May 1943. (Source: FAF)
Also in memory of the rest of the crew. "He giveth his beloved peace"
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 1, P110.
See
Lancaster *
Lancaster Photos *
No.100 Squadron RAF
* 100 Squadron
Association
*
RAF-Lincolnshire with RAF Grimsby * Stettin +
Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943.
Lancaster III ED557 HW-Y
took off from
RAF Grimsby
at 21:57 on 20 APR 1943. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered
has
this) 7 airmen.
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