

Hiley Rhys Davies
Updated:
18 MAR 2022
Airman: a069013.htm
Surname: Davies Init: H R Rank: Sgt Service: RAF
Sqdn: 218
P_link: p103.htm
Plane: STI W7615 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Sea
S of Ærø
Crash_d: d200842 Buried_d: b011042
C_link: c069.htm At_Next: Odense
Den 20. august 1942 styrtede
STI W7615 i havet (måske omkring
her) i
forbindelse med en minelægningsoperation til
Kiel Havn. Se
Minelægningsområder. Tog afsted 20.25 den 20. august
1942 fra RAF Downham Market. 4 fly mistet fra
denne squadron den nat. (Kilde:
p103MACR.)
H. R. Davies blev den 27. september 1942 fundet som lig ved Fuglsbølle
Sønderskov (omkring
her)
på Langeland.
Begravelsen i Odense fandt sted den 1. oktober 1942 ved 8-tiden. Kisten var kort
før ført fra banegården til kapellet (her)
og der henstillet indsvøbt i det engelske flag. (Kilde: FAF)
Sergeant (Air Gunner) Hiley Rhys Davies,
22 år, var søn af Benjamin og Amy Jane Davies,
Cardiff, United Kingdom.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
1 flyver fra STI W7615
blev begravet i Odense, 1 i Aabenraa og 1 i Kiel i Tyskland.
4 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. 7 flyvere.
On 20
August 1942
STI W7615 crashed into the sea (maybe about
here) in connection with a minelaying operation to
Kiel Harbour. See
Minelaying areas.
Left 20:25 20 August 1942 from
RAF Downham Market. 4 lost from squadron
that night. (Source:
p103MACR.).
On 27 September 1942 the body of H. R. Davies was found at Fuglsbølle
Sønderskov (about
here)
on Langeland. He was buried in Odense at about 8 a.m. on 1 October 1942. A short
time
earlier
his coffin had been taken from the railway station to the chapel of rest (here)
and placed
there wrapped up in the
Union Jack. (Source: FAF)
Sergeant (Air Gunner) Hiley Rhys Davies,
22, was the son of Benjamin and Amy Jane Davies, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
(Source: CWGC) "They cannot be where God is not, on any sea or shore."
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, P2, P153. 1 airman from STI W7615 was buried in Odense, 1 in
Aabenraa and 1 in Kiel in Germany.
4 airmen have no known grave.
See
No. 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron RAF
*
No. 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron Association
*
Short Stirling
Stirling I W7615 HA-M
took off from
RAF Downham Market
at 20:50 on 20 AUG 1942. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered
has
this.) 7 airmen.
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