George Herbert Dartnall                       Updated: 06 MAR 2022

Airman: a050004.htm Surname: Dartnall Init: G H Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 9

P_link: p053.htm Plane: WEL X3280 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: North Sea off Holland

Crash_d: d091141 Buried_d: b131241 C_link: c050.htm At_Next: Lemvig

Kl. 17.30 den 9. november 1941 lettede WEL X3280 fra RAF Honington på et bombetogt mod
Hamburg (her). Det angreb målet kl. 19.52.
SOS sendt 21.09 og trukket tilbage. Sidste meddelelse fra øst for Helgoland (som er her). 
Flyet styrtede ned i vadehavet ud for Vlieland, Holland (her). (Kilde: MACR)

Sgt Dartnell blev fundet inddrevet den 11. december 1941, antagelig ved Søndervig (her).
Begravet af pastor J. Bendsen i Lemvig den 13. december 1941. (Kilde: FAF)
Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) George Herbert Dartnall var fra United Kingdom. (CWGC)

1 flyver fra WEL X3280 blev begravet i Lemvig og 1 i HOLLAND. 4 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. 
Wellington * p053MACR.6 flyvere.

At 17.30 hrs. on 9 November 1941 WEL X3280 took off from RAF Honington on a bombing raid
targeting Hamburg (here). It attacked the target at 19.52 hrs.
SOS sent 21.09 and cancelled. Last message from East of Heligoland (which is here).
It crashed in the Waddenzee off Vlieland, Holland (here). (Source: MACR)

Sgt Dartnell was found washed ashore on 11 December 1941, presumably near Søndervig (here).
Vicar J. Bendsen officiated at the graveside ceremony in Lemvig on 13 December 1941. (Source: FAF)

Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) George Herbert Dartnall was from the United Kingdom.
(Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, P 26. 

1 airman from WEL X3280 was buried in Lemvig and 1 in HOLLAND. 4 airmen have no known grave.

See No. 9 Squadron RAF * IX (B) Squadron Association * Wellington * p053MACR.
Wellington III X3280 WS- took off from RAF Honington at17:30 on 09 NOV 1941.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  6 airmen.