Thomas Russell Dunlop  Photo: Eli V. Nielsen   Updated: 08 OCT 2021
                                                                        
Airman: a083001.htm Surname: Dunlop Init: T R Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 166
P_link: p285.htm Plane: LAN ND625 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Sejerø Bugt (Bay)
Crash_d: d100444 Buried_d: b010744 C_link: c083.htm At_Next: Sejerø

Flight Sergeant RAF Thomas Russell Dunlop
27.1 1923 in Dumbarton, Scotland   1.7 1944 at Sejerø
Flying Officer RCAF William Chard Fairgrieve
13.12 1919 in Vancouver, Canada  17.8 1944 at Sejerø
You fought also for us. Erected by residents of Sejerø

”I forbindelse med en stor mineudlægningsoperation i Danzig bugt natten til den 10. april 1944
blev mindst 8 RAF fly skudt ned over Danmark. Et af disse fly, en Lancaster, styrtede i havet vest
for Nekselø. Alle ombordværende omkom." (FAF)  LAN ND625 styrtede ned her.

T.R. Dunlop blev den 1. juli 1944 fundet ilanddrevet på Østerrevet (omkring her). Begravet samme
dag uden jordpåkastelse, da sognepræsten blev vist bort. (Kilde: FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Air Bomber) Thomas Russell Dunlop, 21 år, var søn af Thomas R. og
Margaret Dunlop, Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

"I 1947 var hans forældre: Skolebestyrer Dunlop og frue på Sejerø for at se sønnens grav. De var meget rørt over den modtagelse sejerboerne gav dem og ligeledes var de glade for, så smukt
graven blev holdt og for den smukke gravsten på graven. Hr og fru Dunlop skænkede til gengæld
et smukt sølvfad til brug ved nadveren i kirken." ("Hændelser fra Sejerø under besættelsen" af J
ens Frederik Petersen).

Besætningen er begravet i Odden/Overby (3), Kalundborg (2), Fårevejle (1) og Sejerø (1). 7 flyvere.

"In connection with a big mine laying operation in the Gdansk Bay on the night before 10 April 1944 at least 8 RAF planes were shot down over Denmark. One of these planes, a Lancaster,
crashed into the sea west of Nekselø. All on board perished." (FAF) LAN ND625 crashed here.

T.R. Dunlop was found on 1 July 1944, drifted ashore on Østerrevet (about here). Buried the same day without ecclesiastical assistance, as the vicar was refused admittance. (Source: FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Air Bomber) Thomas Russell Dunlop, 21, was the son of Thomas R. and Margaret Dunlop, of Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, United Kingdom.
(Source: CWGC) He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 31.
"In 1947 his parents, Principal Dunlop and Mrs Dunlop visited Sejerø to see their son´s grave. They were very moved by the way they were met by the residents of
Sejerø and they were glad to see how beautifully the grave was kept and for the beautiful gravestone erected on the grave. In return Mr and Mrs Dunlop donated a
beautiful silver dish to be used at the communion table in the church." (Source: "Events on Sejerø during the occupation" by Jens Frederik Petersen)

The airmen are buried in Odden/Overby (3), Kalundborg (2), Fårevejle (1) and Sejerø (1). 7 airmen.
See No. 166 Squadron RAF * 166 Squadron RAF-Lincolnshire.info * Lancaster-BC Museum.Canada * Avro 683 Lancaster Mk X - IWM Duxford * Lancaster photos. Lancaster III ND625 AS-S took off from RAF Kirmington at 21.25 hrs on 09 APR 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) See p285MACR. 7 airmen.