William James Victor Boyd                Updated: 12 JUN 2022

Airman: a096049.htm Surname: Boyd Init: WJV Rank: F/Sgt Service: RNZAF Sqdn: 75

P_link: p372.htm Plane: LAN LM268 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Ørslev Kohave

Crash_d: d120944 Buried_d: b130944 C_link: c096.htm At_Next: Svinø

"Under en mineudlægningsoperation blev et "Lancaster" fly natten til den 12. september 1944
skudt i brand. Flyet kom lidt over midnat ind over Sydsjælland, hvor det styrtede ned i en ejendom i
Ørslev Kohave. (Her, zoom.) Herved omkom ejeren parcellist Pommergaard, hans kone og tre voksne
børn. Af de 7 ombordværende flyvere omkom de 5.

3 besætningsmedlemmer blev dagen efter nedstyrtningen begravet på Svinø kirkegård." (FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Air Gunner) William James Victor Boyd, 20 år, var søn af James Benjamin Boyd og Lucy Eileen Boyd (f. Westley), Mapua, Nelson, New Zealand. (Kilde: CWGC)

Fra LAN LM268 blev 3 flyvere begravet på Svinø og 2 i Ørslev. 1 flyver blev krigsfange og 1 nåede Sverige.
Se Lancaster fotos og Minelægningsområder. 7 flyvere.

During a minelaying operation a Lancaster was hit and caught fire on the night before 12 September, 1944. The plane came in over south Zealand a little after midnight, where it crashed into a small farm in Ørslev Kohave. (Here, zoom) The owner Carl Pommergaard, his wife and their three adult children perished.

Of the 7 airmen aboard 5 perished.

3 members of the crew were buried in Svinø Churchyard the day after the crash. (Source: FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Air Gunner) William James Victor Boyd, 20, was the son of James Benjamin Boyd
and of Lucy Eileen Boyd (Nee Westley), of Mapua, Nelson, New Zealand. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, P134.  

3 airmen from LAN LM268 were buried in Svinø and 2 in Ørslev. 1 airman became a POW, 1 reached Sweden.
See No. 75 Squadron RNZAF. See Lancaster Photos and Minelaying areas.  p372MACR har mere.
75(nz)squadron has more, also 75(NZ) Squadron RAF Records from September 1944, find entry of 11/12.9.44,
and see that this plane with Captain Hadley failed to return. 
Lancaster I LM268 AA-D took off from RAF Mepal at 19:35 on 11 SEP 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this+Archive Report.)  7 airmen.