"Under returflyvning fra en anti u-båds
patrulje over Kattegat den 19. april 1945 blev et Mosquito fly ramt af tysk flak
og nedstyrtede ved Lomborg.
Et hårdt kvæstet besætningsmedlem,
F. A. Relfe,
døde samme aften på Lemvig Sygehus, mens piloten Mackenzie synes at være dræbt
på stedet.Borgmester Aug. Nielsen, Lemvig, søgte om
tilladelse hos Værnemagten til at begrave ligene, men fik afslag. Senere gav
kommandanten på den
nærliggende tyske flyveplads i Rom dog tilladelse til, at de
2 dræbte flyvere kunne begraves i Struer.
Her blev flyverne i hemmelighed begravet af
tyskerne på deres soldaterkirkegård den 20. eller den 21. april 1945. Den 16.
juni 1945 blev flyvernes lig
under stor lokal deltagelse overført til Struer Kirkegård." (FAF)
Flight Sergeant (Navigator) Frank Albert Relfe var søn af Mrs. M. M.
Relfe, South Tottenham, Middlesex, United Kingdom.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
Se Lomborg, (her) nævnt som nedstyrtningssted
i FAF, og Hove, (her).
Sygehuset var i Lemvig. Syd for landsbyen
Rom var Rom flyveplads
se links. Flyverne blev begravet i
Struer. Se
Mosquito fotos
og
Google Map 14 Mosquitoes DK. 2 flyvere.
On 19 April 1945 a Mosquito aircraft was
hit by German flak on the return flight from an anti submarine patrol in the
Kattegat and crashed at Lomborg.
In the evening a severely injured crew member, F. A. Relfe, died at the hospital
in Lemvig, while the pilot Mackenzie appears to have been killed on the spot.
Mayor Aug. Nielsen, Lemvig, asked the Wehrmacht
for permission to bury the bodies, but his request was met with a rebuff. However, the commander
of the
nearby German
airfield in Rom gave his peermission for the 2 airmen to be buried in Struer.
Here the airmen were buried by the Germans hidden from the
public in the cemetery
for German soldiers on 20 or 21 April 1945.
On 16 June 1945 the bodies of the airmen were
transferred to the cemetery in Struer in a ceremony attended by many Danes from the area. (Source:
FAF)
Flight Sergeant (Navigator) Frank Albert Relfe was the son of Mrs. M. M.
Relfe, of South Tottenham, Middlesex, United Kingdom. (Source:
CWGC)
See Lomborg, (here) mentioned as the crash site
in FAF, and Hove, (here). The hospital was in
Lemvig. South of
the village of Rom was Rom Airfield,(see
Rom flyveplads +
links). The airmen were buried in
Struer. See
Mosquito Photos and
Google Map 14 Mosquitoes DK. This
Mosquito took
off from RAF
Bannf.
2 airmen.
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