Donald Wingrove Ross                      Updated: 10 MAY 2021

Airman: a050013.htm Surname: Ross Init: D W Rank: P/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 207

P_link: p105.htm Plane: LAN R5628 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d100942 Buried_d: b140942 C_link: c050.htm At_Next: Lemvig, Grave 731

"På en mineudlægningsoperation nedstyrtede en Lancaster i havet den 10. september 1942. Samtlige ombordværende omkom." (FAF) Se Minelægningsområder og p105MACR.

Donald Wingrove Ross blev fundet den 12. september 1942 drevet ind på stranden ved Vrist, omkring her. Han blev begravet i Lemvig af sognepræsten den 14. september 1942.

Pilot Officer (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Donald Wingrove Ross, 19 år, var søn af David McIvor Ross
og Viola Grace Ross (f. Wingrove), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Kilde: CWGC)

Fra LAN R5628 er 3 flyvere begravet i Lemvig. 4 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.  7 flyvere.

This Lancaster crashed into the sea during a minelaying operation on 10 September, 1942.
All aboard perished. (Source: FAF)

Donald Wingrove Ross was found on 12 September, 1942 drifted ashore at Vrist, about here.
He was buried in Lemvig by the vicar on 14 September, 1942.

Pilot Officer (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Donald Wingrove Ross, 19, was the son of
David McIvor Ross and Viola Grace Ross (née Wingrove), of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Source: CWGC)
Donald died as he would have lived. His mother. His name is engraved on the
Memorial Wall at the BC Museum of Canada. The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, P 92.

3 airmen from LAN R5628 are buried in Lemvig. 4 airmen have no known grave.

See No. 207 Squadron - Wikipedia * 207 Squadron Royal Air Force History * Lancaster Photos *
Welcome to RAF Syerston
Lancaster I R5628 EM-Q took off from RAF Syerston on 09 SEP 1942.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 7 airmen.