Robert Pickering Cryer                    Updated: 10 JUN 2022

Airman: a060006.htm Surname: Cryer Init: R P Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 12

P_link: p161.htm Plane: LAN ED818 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Vresen Ø (Island).

Crash_d: d210443 Buried_d: b111111 C_link: c060.htm At_Next: Nyborg

"På en mission til Stettin - Szczecin blev et Lancaster fly natten til den 21. april 1943 ramt over Storebælt.
Den nedstyrtede ved Vresen Ø, nord for Langeland. Hele besætningen omkom." (FAF) Vresen Ø er her.

Liget af R. P. Cryer blev fundet i Storebælt 100 m syd for vraget den 5. juni 1943. Dato for begravelsen i Nyborg kendes ikke. (Kilde: AOD)

Pilot Officer (Air Gunner) Robert Pickering Cryer, 33 år, var søn af Frederick og Mary Jane Cryer, gift
med Nellie Cryer, Boothtown, Halifax, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

2 flyvere fra LAN ED818 har ingen kendt grav. 2 er begravet i Nyborg, 1 i København (Bispebjerg),
1 i Esbjerg og 1 i Odense. 7 flyvere. Se Lancaster fotos og  Stettin + Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943.

On the night before 21 April 1943 on a mission to  Stettin - Szczecin  LAN ED818 crashed into the
sea at Vresen Island north of Langeland. All of the crew perished. (Source: FAF) Vresen Island is here.

The body of R. P. Cryer was found in the Storebælt 100 m south of the wreck on 5 June 1943.
No date for his burial in Nyborg is recorded. (Source: AOD)

Pilot Officer (Air Gunner) Robert Pickering Cryer, 33, was the son of Frederick and Mary Jane Cryer,
and the husband of Nellie Cryer, of Boothtown, Halifax, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
Those who knew him loved him well and those who loved him found him true
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, P 25.  

2 airmen from LAN ED818 have no known grave. 2 are buried in Nyborg, 1 in Copenhagen (Bispebjerg),
1 in Esbjerg and 1 in Odense.

See Lancaster * Lancaster Photos * No. 12 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * 12 Squadron RAF at RAF-Lincolnshire.info * 12 Squadron - RAFA.
Lancaster III ED818 PH-Y took off from RAF Wickenby on 20 APR 1943. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this ) Stettin + Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943. 7 airmen.