Stanley Allan Edmonds  Photo 26 JUL 2014, AS  Updated: 10 OCT 2021
                                                            
Airman: a062001.htm Surname: Edmonds Init: S A Rank: F/O Service: RAAF Sqdn: 207

P_link: p292.htm Plane: LAN ME688 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: The North Sea.

Crash_d: d100444 Buried_d: b300844 C_link: c062.htm At_Next: Nysogn

"Natten til den 10. april 1944 foretog RAF en stor mineudlægningsoperation ved Danzig (Gdansk).
I forbindelse med overflyvningen af dansk område blev mindst 7 britiske bombefly skudt ned,
mens flere nedstyrtede i Nordsøen, i større eller mindre afstand fra Vestkysten. Fra 6 fly nedstyrtet i Midtjylland, og 2 i Nordsøen, ligger 35 omkomne flyvere begravet i Esbjerg.
Samtlige flyvere begravedes den 15. april 1944." (FAF) Google Map Mine 10 APR 1944.

Kl. 21.26 den 9. oktober 1944 startede LAN ME688 fra RAF Spilsby. Det styrtede ned i Nordsøen.
Ingen overlevende. (Kilde: p292MACR)

Flying Officer Stanley Allan Edmonds, 25 år, var søn af John Allan Edmonds og Edith Edmonds,
Boorowa, New South Wales, Australia. (Kilde: CWGC)
4 flyvere fra LAN ME688 blev begravet i Danmark. 3 har ingen kendt grav. Se Lancaster Fotos. 7 flyvere.

"On the night before April 10 1944, the RAF carried out a big minelaying operation at Danzig
(Gdansk). At least 7 British bombers were shot down as they flew over Danish territory, and
several crashed into the North Sea, off the west coast of Jutland. From 6 planes crashed in the central
part of Jutland, and 2 in the North Sea, 35 airmen were buried in Esbjerg. All of the airmen were buried
on April 15 1944." (FAF) Google Map Mine 10 APR 1944.
At 21.26 hours on 9 October 1944 LAN ME688 took off from RAF Spilsby. It crashed into the North
Sea. No survivors. (Source: p292MACR)

Flying Officer Stanley Allan Edmonds, 25, was the son of John Allan Edmonds and Edith Edmonds,
of Boorowa, New South Wales, Australia. (Source: CWGC) Virtual War Memorial Australia has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 1, P 32.

4 airmen from LAN ME688 were buried in Denmark. 3 have no known grave.
See No. 207 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * 207 Squadron Association
RAF Spilsby at RAF-Lincolnshire.info.  See Lancaster Photos.
Lancaster I ME688 EM-E took off from RAF Spilsby at 2126 hrs on 09 APR 1944.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  7 airmen.