William Henry Charles Pateman         Updated: 08 OCT 2021

Airman: a096040.htm Surname: Pateman Init: WHC Rank: F/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 619

P_link: p265.htm Plane: LAN DV330 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Langelandsbælt

Crash_d: d160244 Buried_d: b220544 C_link: c096.htm At_Next: Svinø

Den 16. februar 1944 styrtede LAN DV330 i havet ved Langeland, måske omkring her,
under et bombetogt til Berlin. Hele besætningen omkom.

W. H. C. Pateman blev fundet ved Albuen ved Nakskov (omkring her) og R. M. Rumble i havet
øst for Femø (måske omkring her).
De blev begge begravet på Svinø Kirkegård den 22. maj 1944. (Kilde: AOD og FAF)

Flying Officer (Air Bomber) William Henry Charles Pateman var fra United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

3 flyvere fra LAN DV330 blev begravet på Svinø, 2 i Berlin i Tyskland og 2 har ingen kendt grav. 7 flyvere.

On 16 February 1944 LAN DV330 crashed into the sea at Langeland, maybe about here, on a
bombing raid on Berlin. All of the crew perished.

W. H. C. Pateman was found at Albuen at Nakskov (about here). R. M. Rumble was found at sea east
of Femø (maybe about here).
Both of them were buried in Svinø Churchyard on 22 May 1944.  (Sources: AOD and FAF)

Flying Officer (Air Bomber) William Henry Charles Pateman was from the United Kingdom. (CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, P 83. 

3 airmen from LAN DV330 were buried in Svinø, 2 in Berlin in Germany and 2 have no known grave.

See No. 619 Squadron RAF * Lancaster * Lancaster Photos * RAF Coningsby at RAF-Lincolnshire-info
RAF Coningsby 2021 * Google Map RAF-Coningsby.
Lancaster I DV330 PG-O
took off from RAF Coningsby at 1701 hrs on 15 FEB 1944.
(Source:
Aircrew Remembered has this.) See p265MACR. 7 airmen.