

Geoffrey Wilkinson Battersby
Updated:
15 OCT 2021
Airman: a077001.htm Surname: Battersby
Init: G W Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 550
P_link: p367.htm
Plane: LAN EE193 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Kattegat
Crash_d: d300844 Buried_d: b060944
C_link: c077.htm At_Next: Reersø
Den 30. august 1944 styrtede
LAN EE193 i
Kattegat, måske 5 km nordvest for Sejerø.
Se
p367MACR. Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver:
"403 RAF bombefly
fløj til Stettin (Szczecin), medens
189
Lancasters bombede Königsberg
(Kaliningrad).
38 Lancasters
gik tabt.
Over den nordlige
del af Storebælt rapporteredes
et bombefly nedskudt af
en tysk natjager ca. kl. 01.00.
Liget af flight engineer F/Sgt Geoffrey Wilkinson Battersby blev fundet ilanddrevet ved Reersø den 4.
september (måske omkring
her), og to dage
senere blev han begravet på Reersø Kirkegård. Resten
af besætningen har ingen kendt grav." (FT
88-41-33) Se også Arthur Vincent Plante.
Flight Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Geoffrey
Wilkinson Battersby, 24 år, var søn af Henry og
Lydia Battersby, Clitheroe, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
(Kilde:
CWGC) Se
gravsten rejst af
danske.
"Reersø Fiskeriforening samlede penge ind til en kiste, så flyveren kunne blive
begravet på en anstændig måde. Begravelsen fandt sted den 6. september kl. 6 om
morgenen. Kun pastor Glenthøj og graveren fik
af tyskerne tilladelse til at være til stede ved begravelsen, men uden for
kirkemuren stod, trods det tidlige tidspunkt, en flok mennesker fra byen, der
også ville vise deres deltagelse." (FAF)
TV-Kalundborg havde
et indslag om mindehøjtidelighed 4. maj 2013 for
Danmarks befrielse. Det er nu en tradition i Reersø.
Se Lancaster fotos og
Operation 30 AUGUST 1944 - ruter og tab.
7 flyvere.
On 30 August 1944
LAN EE193 crashed into the
Kattegat, maybe 3 miles north west of
Sejerø.
See
p367MACR. (Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes:"403 bombers from the RAF flew to Stettin
(Szczecin)
while 189 Lancasters bombed Königsberg (Kaliningrad).
38 Lancasters were lost.
At about 01.00 hours a bomber was reported shot down by a German night fighter
over the northern part
of the Storebælt. On 4 September 1944 the body of F/Sgt (Flight Engineer) Geoffrey Wilkinson Battersby
was found washed ashore at Reersø (maybe about
here).
He was buried in Reersø Churchyard two days
later. The rest of the crew have no known grave." (FT
88-41-33) See also Arthur Vincent Plante.
Flight Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Geoffrey
Wilkinson Battersby, 24, was the son of Henry and Lydia Battersby, of
Clitheroe, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
(Source:
CWGC) Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his
life for his friends See grave stone from Danes.
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 7.
"Reersø Fishermen's Association collected money
for a coffin, so the airman could be buried in a decent way. The burial took
place on 6 September at 6 a.m.
The Germans only permitted Vicar Glenthøj and the gravedigger to be present at
the burial, but on the other side of the churchyard wall there were a
number
of residents of the area who had come to show offer their sympathy for the airman in spite
of the early hour." (FAF)
TV-Kalundborg had
a TV-item about memorial ceremony on 4 May 2013 for
the liberation of Denmark. Now it is a tradition in
Reersø.
See
Operation 30 AUGUST 1944 - routes and losses *
Lancaster * Lancaster Photos.
RAF North
Killingholme at
RAF-Lincolnshire.info * RAF 550
Squadron and RAF North Killingholme Association Lancaster III EE193
BQ-C took off from
RAF North
Killingholme at 21:13 on 29 AUG 1944. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered has
this.)
See
7 airmen.
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