Ivan Arnold Weir                                Updated: 10 OCT 2021

Airman: a096046.htm Surname: Weir Init: I A Rank: P/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 102

P_link: p304.htm Plane: HAL HX151 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Sea E of Omø

Crash_d: d240444 Buried_d: b111111 C_link: c096.htm At_Next: Svinø

"114 RAF bombefly foretog denne nat mineringer i Østersøen, og 4 Halifaxes og 1 Stirling gik tabt.
HX151 blev skudt ned øst for Omø." (FT 88-40-26) Omkring her. Hele besætningen omkom.
HAL HX151 blev skudt ned kl. 23.42. Kilde: MACR. 

Pilot Officer (Air Bomber) Ivan Arnold Weir, 22 år, var søn af John Stevenson Weir og Mary Caldwell Weir, Belmont, Manitoba, Canada. (Kilde: CWGC)

Fra HAL HX151 er 1 flyver begravet på Omø, 3 i Svinø og 3 har ingen kendt grav. 

Se Halifax Print og folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission.   Minelægningsområder * Magnet-mine 
Miner 1939-40 * Miner 1940 * Miner 1939-45 * Tyske troppetransportskibe * RAF luftangreb og miner. 7 flyvere.

"114 RAF bombers that night carried out minelaying operations in the Baltic Sea, and 4 Halifaxes and
1 Stirling were lost. HX151 was shot down east of Omø." (FT 88-40-26) About here. All of the crew perished.
 HAL HX151 was shot down at 23.42 hrs. Source: MACR.

Pilot Officer (Air Bomber) Ivan Arnold Weir, 22, was the son of John Stevenson Weir and
Mary Caldwell Weir, of Belmont, Manitoba, Canada. (Source: CWGC)
"God called him in out of the night" Remembered by Mother, Dad, Jean and Ruth
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, P 262. 

1 airman from HAL HX151  is buried on Omø, 3 are buried in Svinø and 3 have no known grave.

Halifax II HX151 took off on 23 APR 1944 from RAF Pocklington at 21.10 hrs.
(Aircrew Remembered has this.) See Pocklington History * Wikipedia: No. 102 Squadron.

Halifax *  Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum * Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum  
Halifax Print and Halifax - Bless 'Em All. Minelaying areas * Magnetic mine * Mines 1939-40 * Mines 1940 * Mines 1939-45 * RAF air attacks and mines. 7 airmen.