Ernest George Baker Updated: 05 MAR 2022
Airman: a050001.htm Surname: Baker Init: E G Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 18
P_link: p029.htm Plane: BLE L8864 Operation: Anti ship Crash_site: Off Thyborøn
Crash_d: d250541 Buried_d: b210641 C_link: c050.htm At_Next: Lemvig
Den 25. maj 1941 styrtede
BLE L8864 i
havet ud for Thyborøn. (Omkring
her ved Høfde 49.
Kilde: AOD)
2 omkomne besætningsmedlemmer, Sgt Baker og Sgt Wood, blev begge fundet på
Knopper Strand.
(Se Knopper Enge på kort i folderen
Harboøre Tange fra Naturstyrelsen.)
De blev begravet i Lemvig af pastor J. Bendsen henholdsvis den 21. juni og 27.
maj 1941.
Sergent (Observer) Ernest George Baker, 30 år, var søn af Ernest Heber Baker
og Minnie Baker,
Llandaff, Cardiff, United Kingdom. (Kilde:
CWGC)
Et overlevende besætningsmedlem (Sgt Harris) blev taget til fange.
(Kilde: FAF)
Han blev ført
til Tyske
krigsfangelejre.
"Sgt C. N. Harris blev interneret i lejrene 8B Lamsdorf / L6 Heydekrug / 357
Thorn-Fallingbostel."
(Lost Bombers)
Bombeflyet Bristol
Blenheim. p029MACR med detaljer. 3 flyvere.
On 25 May 1942
BLE L8864 crashed into the sea off Thyborøn. (About
here at
Groyne 49.
Source: AOD)
The 2 perished crew members Sgt Baker and Sgt Wood were both found on the
Knopper Beach.
They were buried in Lemvig on the 21 June and 27 May 1941 respectively. Vicar J.
Bendsen officiated
at the graveside ceremony.
Sergent (Observer) Ernest George Baker, 30, was the son of Ernest Heber Baker
and Minnie Baker,
of Llandaff, Cardiff, United Kingdom. (Source:
CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Ph2, P126.
The surviving crew member Sgt Harris was taken prisoner. (Source: FAF)
He was taken to
German
POW-Camps. "Sgt C. N. Harris was interned in
Camps 8B Lamsdorf /
L6 Heydekrug /
357
Thorn-Fallingbostel." (Lost Bombers)
See
No. 18 Squadron RAF
* Bristol Blenheim
* p029MACR with details.
Blenheim IV L8864 WV-W took off from
RAF
Oulton at 05:50
on 25 MAY 1941.
(Source: Aircrew
Remembered has
this.)
3 airmen.