Royden Garfield Bradley Updated: 19 MAR 2021 Airman: a104001.htm Surname: Bradley Init: R G Rank: F/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 166 P_link: p350.htm Plane: LAN LM652 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Kattegat. Crash_d: d270844 Buried_d: b061044 C_link: c104.htm At_Next: Tved ”Under en mineudlægningsoperation til Danzig-bugten styrtede en Lancaster (LAN LM652) den 27. august 1944 i havet, antagelig Kattegat. Hele besætningen omkom. Flyets pilot R.G. Bradley inddrev den 4. oktober 1944 på Tved Strand ved Begtrup Vig (omkring her). Han blev begravet den 6. oktober af provst J.M. Eriksen, Tved. Til stede ved begravelsen var foruden provsten kirkesangeren, lærer Poulsen, sognefogeden, 4 tyske soldater, samt enkelte af sognets beboere.” (FAF)
Flying Officer (Pilot) Royden Garfield Bradley,
21 år, var søn af Clifford og Louisa May Bradley,
Fra LAN LM652
er 1 flyver begravet i Tved på Mols og 1 i Mandal i Norge. 6 flyvere har ingen
kendt grav. The pilot R.G. Bradley on 4 October, 1944, drifted in on Tved Beach at Begtrup Cove. He was buried on 6 October by rural dean J.M. Eriksen, Tved (about here). Present at the burial were besides the rural dean the cantor, teacher Poulsen, the sheriff, 4 German soldiers and a few residents of the parish. (Source: FAF) Flying Officer (Pilot) Royden Garfield Bradley,
21, was the son of Clifford and Louisa May Bradley, of Lansdowne, Ontario, Canada. (Source:
CWGC)
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has
this.
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