Patrick Alfred Kingsley Mockford       Updated: 18 MAY 2021

Airman: a050027.htm Surname: Mockford Init: PAK Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 207

P_link: p177.htm Plane: LAN W4945 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: At Remmerstrand

Crash_d: d290443 Buried_d: b200543 C_link: c050.htm At_Next: Lemvig, Grave 704

Natten til den 29. april 1943 udførte RAF en større mineudlægningsoperation over Østersøen og
de indre danske farvande, hvorunder mindst 10 bombefly blev skudt ned på dansk område. Dette Lancaster-fly blev således ramt af tysk flak og styrtede ned vest for Oddesund-broen, omkring her.
Hele besætningen omkom. Flyverne blev begravet i Lemvig efterhånden som de blev fundet.
(Kilder: FAF og AOD)
Hvordan blev flystyrtet oplevet af en dreng på 14 år? Se en beretning fra Orla Marcel Hansen og p177MACR.

P/O P.A.K. Mockford blev begravet af pastor J. Bendsen den 20. maj 1943. (Kilde: CWGC)
Pilot Officer (Navigator) Patrick Alfred Kingsley Mockford, 20 år, var søn af
Frederick Stanley Mockford og Winifred Mockford, Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom.
Se også Minelægningsområder og Lancaster fotos. 7 flyvere.

 On the night before 29 April 1943 the RAF carried out a great minelaying operation over the Baltic
Sea and the inner Danish waters, during which at least 10 bombers were shot down on Danish territory. This Lancaster was hit by German flak and crashed west of the Oddesund-bridge, around here.
All of the crew perished. The airmen were buried in Lemvig in the course of time when they were found. (Sources: FAF and AOD)

P/O P.A.K. Mockford was buried by the the Reverend J. Bendsen on 20 May 1943.
Pilot Officer (Navigator) Patrick Alfred Kingsley Mockford, 20, was the son of Frederick Stanley Mockford and Winifred Mockford, of Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
"The way was strange   the flight was long  at last the angels came"
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 1, P 75.

See No. 207 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * 207 Squadron History * Lancaster * Lancaster Photos
Lancaster I W4945 EM-Z took off from RAF Langar at 20.55 hrs on 28 APR 1943.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) See also p177MACR. 7 airmen.