Gordon Francis Jones                      Updated: 10 JUN 2022

Airman: a060007.htm Surname: Jones Init: G F Rank: F/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: b050643 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 G. F. Jones blev fundet på østsiden af Vresen Ø (omkring her) den 1. juni 1943.
Han blev begravet i Nyborg den 5. juni 1943. (Kilde: AOD)

Flying Officer (Navigator) Gordon Francis Jones, 28 år, var søn af Albert Jones og Daisy Mary Caroline
Jones, West Wimbledon, Surrey, 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 G. F. Jones was found on the east side of Vresen Island (about  here) on 1 June 1943.
He was buried in Nyborg on 5 June 1943. (Source: AOD)

Flying Officer (Navigator) Gordon Francis Jones, 28, was the son of Albert Jones and of Daisy Mary
Caroline Jones, of West Wimbledon, Surrey, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
Not just to-day, but every day, we remember him
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 56.

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.