Robert Wilson
Updated:
15 JAN 2023
Airman: a103007.htm
Surname: Wilson Init: R Rank: Sgt Service: RAF
Sqdn: 153
P_link: p407.htm Plane: LAN RA526 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Kattegat W of Samsø
Crash_d: d120345 Buried_d: b290445 C_link: c103.htm At_Next: Tranebjerg
Den 12. marts 1945 blev
LAN RA526 skudt ned ud for
Samsø.
Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift
skriver:
"12.-13. marts 1945 (kl. 21.16). Farvandet V for
Ringebjerge på Samsø (omkring
her). Lancaster B. I, RA526 (P4-.1). 153 BS, 1 BG, Scampton,
Lincs.
(minering i Kattegat).
- Kl. 21.16 skød den tyske pilot, Major Werner Husemann, den første Lancaster ned. RA526,
ført af F/0 Kenneth Albert Ayres,
DFC, styrtede brændende ned ud for Samsø's
vestkyst ved Ringebjerge. - " (FT 91-9-47)
Sergeant (Air Gunner) Robert Wilson, 20
år, var søn af John og Helen Wilson; gift med
Sarah Wilson, Ochiltree, Ayrshire,
United Kingdom.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
5 flyvere fra
LAN RA526 drev ind på kysten af Samsø og blev begravet i
Tranebjerg.
1 har ingen kendt grav og 1 blev krigsfange.
7 flyvere. (Se
Minelægningsområder)
On 12 March 1945
LAN RA526 was shot down off
Samsø.
(Danish) Aviation Historical
Review writes:"12.-13. March 1945 (21:16). The waters W of Ringebjerge on Samsø (about
here). Lancaster B. I, RA526 (P4-.1). 153 BS, 1 BG, Scampton,
Lincs.
(minelaying in the Kattegat).
- At
21:16 the German pilot Major Werner Husemann shot down the first Lancaster.
RA526
piloted by F/O Kenneth Albert Ayres
DFC crashed, burning, off the west coast of Samsø at Ringebjerge. - ” (FT 91-9-47)
(See
Minelaying areas)
Sergeant (Air Gunner) Robert Wilson, 20,
was the son of John and Helen Wilson, and the
husband of Sarah Wilson, of Ochiltree,
Ayrshire, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 117.
5 airmen
from
LAN RA526
drifted ashore and were buried in Tranebjerg Churchyard,
1 has no known grave
and 1 became a POW.
See
Lancaster-Wikipedia * Lancaster photos *
RAF Scampton Station
homepage and
RAF
Scampton at
RAF-Lincolnshire.info.
Lancaster I RA526 P4-J
took off from
RAF Scampton at
17:35 on 12 MAR 1945. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered
has this.) 7 airmen.