James Reid Bradley Updated: 05 OCT 2021
Airman: a075001.htm
Surname: Bradley Init: J R Rank: F/O
Service: RCAF
Sqdn: 138 P_link: p222.htm
Plane: HAL JD156
Operation: SOE to PL
Crash_site: Off Norsminde
Crash_d: d160943 Buried_d: b041043 C_link: c075.htm At_Next: Randers Nordre
Natten
til den 17. september 1943 blev HAL JD156 på
vej til Polen skudt i brand
af en tysk
natjager. Det var på
SOE flyvning med forsyninger til den
polske modstandsbevægelse
-
"Flat 5" siger Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift.
Flyet gik i havet ca. 7 km ud
for Norsminde syd for Århus, måske
omkring her.
"Liget af F/O James Reid Bradley drev lørdag den
2. oktober 1943 i land ved Særbæk på Helgenæs og blev begravet på Nordre
Kirkegård i Randers mandag den 4. oktober 1943." (FT 90-64-16) Fundet
måske omkring her nær
Særbækvej.
Randers Amtsavis den 4. oktober 1943: "Ved Særbæk paa Helgenæs drev i Lørdags
Morges et stærkt opløst Lig af en canadisk Flyver i Land. - - Liget er lagt i
Kiste og
stillet ind i Særbæk-Huset (Særbækvej 12, 8420 Knebel
her,
overblik
her og
her)."
(Det er 700 m nordvest for Helgenæs! Intet i aviser om begravelsen i Randers.)
Da der i 1945 oprettedes en særlig mindelund på
kirkegården for faldne frihedskæmpere fra Randers, blev hans lig overflyttet 23.
juni 1945. Se Artikel og CV. Se fotos.
Flying Officer (Navigator) James Reid Bradley var fra Canada.
(Kilde:
CWGC) s
"J.R. Bradley, begravet 4.10.1943,
canadisk flyver" Stamblad.
Se
"Der kom brev fra
Canada" pdf fra Randers Amtsavis 18
FEB 2017. Se også Foto og brev fra hans søster.
Han blev født i Toronto,
Canada, i 1921.(Kilde: Brev)
1 flyver fra HAL JD156
blev begravet i Randers og 1 i Frederikshavn.
1 flyver forsvandt i havet. 4 blev reddet og taget til fange. (Kilde: FAF) 7
flyvere.
On the night before 17 September 1943 HAL JD156
on its way to Poland was
shot ablaze by a German night fighter. It was on an
SOE operation with supplies
for
the
Polish resistance
- "Flat 5" says (Danish) Aviation Historical Review (FT). The plane ditched in the sea
about 7 km off Norsminde south of Århus, maybe
about here.
"On Saturday 2 October 1943 the body of F/O
James Reid Bradley drifted ashore at Særbæk, Helgenæs.
He was buried in Randers North Cemetery on Monday 4 October 1943." (FT 90-64-16)
Found
maybe about here near
Særbækvej.
Randers Amtsavis on 4 October 1943, "On Saturday morning the body of a Canadian
airman in an advanced state of decomposition was washed ashore at Særbæk
on Helgenæs. - - The body was placed in a coffin and taken to the Særbæk House
(Særbækvej 12, 8420 Knebel
here,
overview
here and
here)."
(It is 700 m north west of Helgenæs! Nothing in newspapers about the burial in Randers.)
When a special memorial grove
to fallen members of the resistance movement
in
Randers
was made, his body was moved there on 23 June 1945. See Article+CV.
Photos. Record of Service.
Flying Officer (Navigator) James Reid Bradley was from Canada. (Source:
CWGC) Born in
Toronto, Canada, in 1921.
(Source: Photo and letter from his sister)
"J.R. Bradley, buried 4.10.1943,
Canadian airman" The
Canadian Virtual War Memorial has
this and
Page 139 from book of Second World War, 1943.
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 134.
See also A letter from Canada translated from "Der kom brev fra
Canada" pdf from Randers Amtsavis 18 FEB
2017. See Photo and letter from his sister.
See
No. 138 Squadron
Wikipedia*Halifax*Halifax
Print*Halifax
- Bless 'Em All*British
Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
See also Tempsford Special
Duties Squadrons *
Roll of Honour, Tempsford
Halifax II JD156 NF-W took off from
RAF Tempsford at 1826
hrs on 16 SEP 1943. (Source: Aircrew
Remembered has
this.)
7 airmen.