John Muir Williams                              Updated: 17 MAY 2021

Airman: a096038.htm Surname: Williams Init: J M Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAAF 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).

Flight Sergeant John Muir Williams, 23 år, var søn af Ernest Spencer Williams og Jessie Ellen Williams.
Han var gift med Kathleen Rose Williams, East St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia. (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)

Flight Sergeant John Muir Williams, 23, was the son of Ernest Spencer Williams and Jessie Ellen Williams,
and the husband of Kathleen Rose Williams, of East St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia. (Source: CWGC)
John, beloved husband of Rose.
Virtual War Memorial Australia has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 265.

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.