James Ritchie                                             Updated: 28 MAR 2022

Airman: a096053.htm Surname: Ritchie Init: J Rank: F/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 77

P_link: p396.htm Plane: HAL MZ924 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Smålandsfarvandet

Crash_d: d150245 Buried_d: b110545 C_link: c096.htm At_Next: Svinø

"I forbindelse med en mineudlægningsoperation natten til den 15. februar 1945 nedstyrtede en "Halifax"
i havet et sted syd for Sjælland. Hele besætningen omkom. Se Google Map p396 * Maleri af HAL KN-D.

J. Ritchie drev i land ved Karrebæksminde, (måske omkring her).

Den 11. maj 1945 blev han begravet på Svinø Kirkegaard af sognepræst Johs. Lindeløv. (Kilde: FAF)

Flying Officer (Navigator) James Ritchie var fra United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

Besætningen på HAL MZ924 er begravet i Skælskør (1), Brarup (2), Stubbekøbing (1), Svinø (2) og Bogø (1).

7 flyvere.

"In connection with a minelaying operation the night before 15 February, 1945 a "Halifax" crashed into
the sea somewhere south of Zealand. All of the crew perished. Google Map p396 *Painting of HAL KN-D.

J. Ritchie drifted ashore at Karrebæksminde, (maybe about here).

Flying Officer (Navigator) James Ritchie was from the United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, P 233.  

The airmen of HAL MZ924 are buried in Skælskør (1), Brarup (2), Stubbekøbing (1), Svinø (2) and Bogø (1).

No.77 Squadron RAF * 77 Squadron Association * Halifax * Halifax Print * Halifax-BC Museum.Canada
Halifax-RAF Museum * Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum.
Halifax III MZ924 KN-D took off from RAF Full Sutton at 18.05 hrs on 14 FEB 1945.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) Google Map 77 Squadron DK