Cyril Ernest Wellard                         Updated: 26 NOV 2021

Airman: a050024.htm Surname: Wellard Init: C E Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 100

P_link: p167.htm Plane: LAN ED709 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Ringkøbing Fjord

Crash_d: d210443 Buried_d: b040643 C_link: c050.htm At_Next: Lemvig, Grave 706

Efter at have bombet Stettin blev Lancaster ED 709 på hjemvejen ramt af flak ved Jyllands vestkyst. Kl. 03:28 styrtede det i Ringkøbing Fjord på lavt vand her ca. 600 m fra kysten. Alle 7 besætningsmedlemmer blev dræbt ved styrtet. 1 mand har ikke nogen kendt grav. De 6 andre blev begravet efterhånden som de blev fundet -  Sgt R.A. Whellams i 1998!
I første omgang blev Sgt T. Carter og Sgt R.S. Sidwell begravet som ukendte - senere identificeret af danskere. Se Helge W. Gram - Lancaster ED709.
Se fotos og mere i Flyvere identificeret  1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5  Google Map p167 Lancaster ED709

31 MAY 1943. En flyver fundet omkring her nær Velling Kirke. "Over venstre lomme et O og en
halv vinge". Begravet i Lemvig, grav 706, 04 JUN 1943 (Kilde: Politirapport 1090) Se Glover.
Sgt Air Bomber C.E. Wellard.

Pilot Officer (Air Bomber) Cyril Ernest Wellard var søn af James og Edith Wellard; gift med Betty Margaret Wellard, Boughton, Kent, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

Se Lancaster fotos og  Stettin + Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943. 7 flyvere.

Returning from a bombing raid to Stettin Lancaster ED 709 was hit by flak at the west coast of Jutland. At 03:28 it crashed into the shallow waters of the Ringkøbing Fjord here about 600 m off the coast. All 7 members of the crew perished in the crash. 1 man has no known grave. The 6 others
were buried in the course of time when they were found - Sgt R.A. Whellams in 1998!
At first Sgt T. Carter and Sgt R.S. Sidwell were buried as unknown - later identified by Danes.
See Helge W. Gram - Lancaster ED709.
See photos and more on Airmen identified 1*2*3*4*5   Google Map p167 Lancaster ED709

31 MAY 1943. An airman found about here near Velling Church. Tunic had an "O" and a half wing on
top left chest pocket. Buried in Lemvig, Grave 706, on 04 JUN 1943. (Source: Police report 1090)
See Glover. Sgt Air Bomber C.E. Wellard.

Pilot Officer (Air Bomber) Cyril Ernest Wellard was the son of James and Edith Wellard, and the
husband of Betty Margaret Wellard, of Boughton, Kent, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 113.  

See No.100 Squadron RAF-Wikipedia * No. 100 Squadron Association * RAF-Lincolnshire with RAF Grimsby * Lancaster * Lancaster Photos.
Lancaster III ED709 HW-S took off from RAF Grimsby at 21.59 hrs on 20 APR 1943. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)
It had a Rolls-Royce Merlin variant XX engine produced by Rolls-Royce in the United Kingdom. (Source: The RAF Museum, London)
See Stettin + Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943. 7 airmen.