William Richard Fortesque Curry          Updated: 29 AUG 2018

Airman: a102001.htm Surname: Curry Init: WRF Rank: F/Lt Service: RAF Sqdn: 299

P_link: p422r.htm Plane: STI PK229 Operation: Drop in DK Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d120445 Buried_d: b090645 C_link: c102.htm At_Next: Tornby

”Natten til den 12. april 1945 skulle et Stirling fly nedkaste våben på en plads ved Holmene
vest for Fjerritslev (som er her). Flyet må være styrtet i havet. Alle ombord omkom.

Flyets pilot, W.R.F. Curry, blev fundet som lig på stranden lige syd for Liver Ås munding i Tornby
sogn den 7. juni 1945. (Omkring her) Ved begravelsen i Tornby den 9. juni 1945 holdt sognepræst Aksel Jacobsen mindetale på engelsk for den da ukendte flyver. Han mindede om, at for Gud var flyveren ikke ukendt. En engelsk officer og en æresdeling var til stede ved højtideligheden.” (FAF)
Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) William Richard Fortesque Curry var fra United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

Flyets navigator F.Cairns blev den  12. juni 1945 begravet ved Helligsø Kirke.
Arne Mosgaard om flyvergrav i Tornby. De resterende 4 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.

69 omkomne flyvere mindes på Mindetavlen i Rebild og i London,
se 69 flyvere - St. Clement Danes.   6 flyvere.

Memorial to W.R.F. Curry, Lieutenant in the English army, killed over the North Sea
and drifted in on Kjærsgaard Beach 7 June, 1945. 22 years old.
In gratitude over the liberation of Denmark residents of the parish erected this stone.
On the night before 12 April, 1945 a Stirling was to drop weapons on a drop zone at Holmene west
of Fjerrritslev (which is here). The plane must have crashed in the sea. All on board perished.

The body of pilot W.R.F. Curry was found on the beach just south of the mouth of Liver Stream in
the parish of Tornby on 7 June, 1945. (About here)
At the funeral in Tornby on 9 June, 1945, vicar Aksel Jacobsen made a memorial speech in English
to the then unknown airman. He reminded the congregation that the airman was not unknown to God. (Source: FAF)
Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) William Richard Fortesque Curry was from the United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)

Navigator  F. Cairns was buried at Helligsø Church on 12 June, 1945. The remaining 4 members of the crew have no known graves. (Source: FAF)

Arne Mosgaard about this grave in Tornby. See 69 perished airmen on the Memorial Plaque in Rebild and in London, 69 airmen - St. Clement Danes.
See No. 299 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia and 299 Squadron at Unit Histories. This Stirling took off from RAF Shepherds Grove.    6 airmen.