Harold Peter Griffith Jones                  Updated: 05 MAR 2022

Airman: a100002.htm Surname: Jones Init: HPG Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 18

P_link: p027.htm Plane: BLE T1829 Operation: Anti ship Crash_site: Off Westerland, Sylt

Crash_d: d110441 Buried_d: b120841 C_link: c100.htm At_Next: Søndre Nissum

Den 11. april 1941 styrtede BLE T1829 i Nordsøen ved øen Sild. Hele besætningen omkom.
"T1829 blev sidst set over øen Amrum, da den fløj mod nord mod Sild, hvorfra man mente at have set
salver fra antiluftskyts. Målet ikke ramt i tågen af nogle fly. Amrum bombet." Kilde: p027MACR.

Flyets pilot H. P. G. Jones blev fundet den 8. august 1941 i Jens Dahls strandlen, Sdr. Nissum sogn (omkring her). Han blev begravet i Sdr. Nissum den 12. august 1941 ved sognepræst Jensen, Staby.

Pilot Officer (Pilot) Harold Peter Griffith Jones, 21 år, var søn af Griffith og Catherine Jones, Liverpool, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

De 2 andre flyvere forsvandt i havet. (Kilde: FAF) 3 flyvere.

On 11 April 1941 BLE T1829 crashed into the North Sea off the island of Sylt. All of the crew perished.
"T1829 was last seen over Island of Amrum flying north towards Sylt from which A.A. bursts were thought
to have been seen. Target missed in fog by some aircraft. Amrum bombed." Source: p027MACR.

On 8 August 1941 Pilot H. P. G. Jones was found washed ashore in Jens Dahl's beach area in the
parish of Sønder Nissum (about here). On 12 August 1941 he was buried in Sønder Nissum.
Vicar Jensen of Staby officiated at the graveside ceremony.

Pilot Officer (Pilot) Harold Peter Griffith Jones, 21, was the son of Griffith and Catherine Jones,
of Liverpool, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, P2, P191.       

The 2 other airmen disappeared into the sea. (Source: FAF) See No. 18 Squadron RAF * p027MACR

Blenheim IV T1829 WV-P took off from RAF Oulton at 10:50 on 11 APR 1941.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) Bristol Blenheim 3 airmen.