Frederick John Watson                    Updated: 26 APR 2021

Airman: a082001.htm Surname: Watson Init: F J Rank: F/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 161

P_link: p401r.htm Plane: STI LK312 Operation: Drop in DK Crash_site: Limfjorden.

Crash_d: d050345 Buried_d: b260545 C_link: c082.htm At_Next: Sejerslev

"Under en flyvning med våben til en modtageplads i Distrikt I, Vendsyssel styrtede et RAF fly i Limfjorden ved Livø
(omkring her) natten til den 5. marts 1945. Hele besætningen omkom." (FAF)  Arne Mosgaard om flyvergrav i Sejerslev.

Flying Officer (Flight Engineer) Frederick John Watson, 26 år, var søn af Frederick John og Margret Watson, gift med
Marjorie Maria Watson, Orpington, Kent. Hæderstegn: DFM, the Distinguished Flying Medal. (Kilde: CWGC)

Fra STI LK312 er 2 flyvere er begravet i Fjerritslev,  4 i Løgstør og 1 i Sejerslev.

69 omkomne flyvere fra dette og 14 andre fly mindes på Mindetavlen i Rebild. De mistede livet under nedkastningsoperationer
til modstandsbevægelsen. Af samme grund mindes de i London. Se 69 flyvere - St. Clement Danes.

Historisk Samling og Arkiv Himmerland har mere om dette fly og dets besætning. 7 flyvere. 

"During a flight with weapons to a drop zone in District I, Vendsyssel a RAF plane crashed in the Limfjorden at Livø
(about here) on the night before 5 March, 1945. All of the crew perished." (FAF)

Flying Officer (Flight Engineer) Frederick John Watson, 26, was the son of Frederick John and Margret Watson,
and the husband of Marjorie Maria Watson, of Orpington, Kent. Awards: DFM, the Distinguished Flying Medal. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 260.

From STI LK312 2 airmen are buried in Fjerritslev, 4 in Løgstør and 1 in Sejerslev.

Arne Mosgaard about this grave in Sejerslev. 69 perished airmen from this and 14 other planes are commemorated on
the Memorial Plaque in Rebild. They lost their lives in supply operations to the Danish resistance.
For the same reason they are commemorated in London. See 69 airmen - St. Clement Danes.

No. 161 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia* Roll of Honour, Tempsford* Tempsford Special Duties Squadrons*
A History of Tempsford Airfield.

Stirling IV LK312 MA-W took off from RAF Tempsford on 04 MAR 1945. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)
Short Stirling. 7 airmen.