Ian Ronald Robertson                         Updated: 17 MAY 2021

Airman: a048010.htm Surname: Robertson Init: I R Rank: P/O Service: RAAF Sqdn: 61

P_link: p169.htm Plane: LAN W4898 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Kattegat, S

Crash_d: d280443 Buried_d: b220543 C_link: c048.htm At_Next: K - Bispebjerg

Natten til den 29. april 1943 udførte RAF en stor mineudlægningsoperation over Østersøen og de
indre danske farvande. Mindst 10 britiske fly blev den nat skudt ned over dansk område.
Se Minelægningsområder og Lancaster fotos.

Et af disse, LAN W4898 må være nedstyrtet i Kattegat, muligvis ved Hesselø, som er her.
Alle ombord omkom. (Kilde: FAF)
I.R. Robertson blev den 19. maj 1943 fundet i Sundet nordøst for Humlebæk (omkring her) af den
danske torpedobåd "Havkatten". Liget blev indbragt til Helsingør (her), og begravelsen på Bispebjerg Kirkegård var den 22. maj 1943.

Pilot Officer Ian Ronald Robertson, 27 år, var søn af Sydney og Emily Gertrude Robertson,
Greenslopes, Queensland, Australia. (Kilde: CWGC)

4 flyvere fra LAN W4898 har ingen kendt grav. 1 begravet i Frederikshavn, 1 på Bispebjerg Kirkegård i København og 1 i Sverige. 7 flyvere.

On the night before 29 April, 1943 RAF carried out a big mine laying operation over the Baltic Sea
and the inner Danish waters. At least 10 British planes were shot down that night over Danish territory.

One of these, LAN W4898 must have crashed in Kattegat, possibly at Hesselø, which is here.
All on board perished. (Source: FAF)
I.R. Robertson was found on 19 May, 1943 in the Sound north east of Humlebæk (about here) by the Danish torpedo boat "Havkatten". The body was taken to Helsingør (here), and the burial in Bispebjerg Cemetery was on 22 May, 1943. (Helsingør is often called Elsinore in English)

Pilot Officer Ian Ronald Robertson, 27, was the son of Sydney and Emily Gertrude Robertson,
of Greenslopes, Queensland, Australia. (Source: CWGC) Your memory hallowed in the land you loved
Virtual War Memorial Australia has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, P 1, P 91.

4 airmen from LAN W4898 have no known grave. 1 is buried in Frederikshavn, 1 in Copenhagen and 1 in Sweden. 7 flyvere.
See No. 61 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * No. 50 & 61 Squadrons Association * Minelaying areas * Lancaster photos
Lancaster I W4898 QR- took off from RAF Syerston on 28 APR 1943. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  7 flyvere.