Robert Francis Shorthouse  Photo: Knud Riis   Updated: 07 MAY 2021
                                                                              
Airman: a070001.htm Surname: Shorthouse Init: R F Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 12

P_link: p088.htm Plane: WEL W5397 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d140742 Buried_d: b300942 C_link: c070.htm At_Next: Oksby

Kl. 00.09 den 14. juli 1942 lettede WEL W5397 fra RAF Binbrook på bombetogt mod Duisburg med
2 x 1.000 pund, 2 x 500 pund og 3 x 500 pund bomber.
Flyet gik tabt over havet, formodentligt over Nordsøen. Ingen overlevende. (Kilde: p088MACR)

R. F. Shorthouse blev fundet den 25. september 1942 på østre Oksby strandlen (omkring her).
Han blev begravet i Oksby den 30. september 1942. (Kilde: FAF)

Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Robert Francis Shorthouse, 20 år, var søn af Harry Robert
og Maud Annie Shorthouse, Eltham, London, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

4 flyvere fra WEL W5397 har ingen kendt grav. 5 flyvere.

At 00.09 hrs. on 14 July 1942 WEL W5397 took off from RAF Binbrook on a bombing raid on Duisburg carrying 2 x 1,000 lb., 2 x 500 lb. and 3 x 500 lb. bombs.
It was lost at sea, North Sea presumed. (Source: p088MACR)

R. F. Shorthouse was found on 25 September 1942 in beach area Oksby east (about here).
He was buried in Oksby on 30 September 1942. (Source: FAF)

Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Robert Francis Shorthouse, 20, was the son of
Harry Robert and Maud Annie Shorthouse, of Eltham, London, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
In proud and loving memory of our dear Bobby. Mum, Dad and Harry. R.I.P.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, P 97.

See No. 12 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia and 12 Squadron RAF at RAF-Lincolnshire.info. Wellington bomb bay
Wellington  II W5397 PH- took off from RAF Binbrook at 00.09 hrs on 13 JUL 1942.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)
5 airmen.