Roland Stanley Sidwell                    Updated: 26 NOV 2021

Airman: a050043.htm Surname: Sidwell Init: R S Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 100

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

Crash_d: d210443 Buried_d: b260643 C_link: c050.htm At_Next: Lemvig, Grave 710

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 besætnings-medlemmer 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

21 JUN 1943 blev R.S. Sidwell fundet ilanddrevet ved Klovmosehus i Velling (omkring her), uidentificeret, men det kunne fastslås, at der var en engelsk flyver - sergent, skytte og telegrafist. 26 JUN 1943 begravet
i Lemvig, grav 710. (Kilde: Politirapport 03 JUL 1943.)
Ny gravsten 17 SEP 1998, se Flyvere identificeret.

Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Roland Stanley Sidwell, 20 år, var fra 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

On 21 JUN 1943 R.S. Sidwell was found washed ashore near Klovmosehus in Velling (about here), unidentified, but it could be established
that he was an English airman, Sergeant, Air Gunner and Wireless Operator. On 26 JUN 1943 he was buried in Lemvig, Grave 710.
(Source: Police report 1314 of 03 JUL 1943.) A new headstone was dedicated to him on 17 SEP 1998, see Airmen identified.

Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Roland Stanley Sidwell, 20, was from the United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel  97. 

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.