Clifford Abbott                                  Updated: 17 MAY 2021

Airman: a096032.htm Surname: Abbott Init: C Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 75

P_link: p173.htm Plane: STI BF467 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Langelandsbælt

Crash_d: d290443 Buried_d: b010543 C_link: c096.htm At_Next: Svinø

Den tyske marines flakbatteri MAA 508 ved Kappel (omkring her) rapporterede et nedskudt fly,
der styrtede i havet omkring her. Hele besætningen omkom. (FT 86-89-11) Se også p173MACR.

Alle besætningsmedlemmerne blev fundet i løbet af 4 uger, enten i Østersøen eller drevet i land på
den sydvestlige del af Lolland, og de blev alle begravet på Svinø Kirkegård som angivet. (Kilde: FAF).

Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Clifford Abbott, 21 år, var søn af Joseph Ernest og Grace Abbott, Clifton,
York, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)
7 flyvere.

The flak battery at Kappel (about here) MAA 508 belonging to the German Navy reported that a
plane had been shot down. It crashed into the sea about here. All of the crew  perished. (FT 86-89-11)
See also p173MACR.

All crew members were found within 4 weeks, either in the Baltic Sea or drifted ashore on the
southwestern part of Lolland, and they were all buried in Svinø Churchyard as indicated. (Source: FAF)

Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Clifford Abbott, 21, was the son of Joseph Ernest and Grace Abbott, of
Clifton, York, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
Of such is the kingdom of God.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 2, P 121.

See No. 75 Squadron RNZAF. 75(nz)squadron has more, also 75(NZ) Squadron RAF Records find
Pilot Desmond Lewis Thompson in the Alphabetical index, scroll down to the entry of 28/041943 - Mining in
the Kiel Bay, and see that this plane with Captain Thompson failed to return. 75 Squadron Association NZ + UK.
Stirling III BF467 AA-W took off from RAF Newmarket at 20.38 hrs on 28 APR 1943.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) Google Map planesRNZAF 7 airmen.