Bartholomew McKeon                    Updated: 11 MAY 2022

Airman: a050017.htm Surname: McKeon Init: B Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 515

P_link: p147.htm Plane: DEF AA417 Operation: Patrol Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d110443 Buried_d: b190643 C_link: c050.htm At_Next: Lemvig

Kl. 21.25 den 11. april 1943 lettede DEF AA417 fra RAF Coltishall på en patruljeflyvning.
Flyet styrtede i Nordsøen. Ingen overlevende. (Kilde: p147MACR)

E. H. Ferguson blev fundet drevet ind ved Vedersø Klit (omkring her) den 14. juni 1943.
B. McKeon blev fundet drevet ind ved Trans Klit (omkring her) den 16. juni 1943.
Den 19. juni 1943 blev de begge begravet i Lemvig af pastor J. Bendsen. (Kilde: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Pilot) Bartholomew McKeon, 26 år, var søn af Bartholomew og Anna McKeon,
Crewe, Cheshire, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

2 flyvere.

At 21.25 hrs. on 11 April 1943 DEF AA417 took off from RAF Coltishall on a patrol flight.
It crashed in the North Sea. No survivors. (Source: p147MACR)

E. H. Ferguson was found washed ashore near Vedersø Klit (about here) on 14 June 1943.
B. McKeon was found washed ashore near Trans Klit (about here) on 16 June 1943.
On 19 June 1943 both of them were buried in Lemvig by Vicar J. Bendsen. (Source: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Pilot) Bartholomew McKeon, 26, was the son of Bartholomew and Anna McKeon,
of Crewe, Cheshire, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
 
No. 515 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * This Boulton Paul Defiant II took off from RAF Coltishall.
Defiant II AA417 took off from RAF Coltishall on 11 APR 1943. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)

2 airmen.