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,
Lansdowne, Ontario, Canada. (Kilde: CWGC)

Fra LAN LM652 er 1 flyver begravet i Tved på Mols og 1 i Mandal i Norge. 6 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
"Efter krigen er adskillige vragdele fundet i Begtrup Vig og i farvandet syd for Mols Hoved, men det har
ikke været muligt at identificere flyet ud fra vragdelene. Det må dog formodes, at der er tale om
 LAN LM652" (FT 90-106-29) I så fald er flyet styrtet ned måske omkring her.
Se Minelægningsområder og Lancaster fotos. 7 flyvere.
 
During a mine laying operation to the Gdansk Bay LAN LM652 crashed into the sea, presumably the Kattegat, on 27 August, 1944. All of the crew perished.

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.
His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the BC Museum of Canada.
See also Page 256 from book: Second World War, 1944.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 12.
 
"After the war a number of pieces of wreckage have been found in Begtrup Vig (Cove) and in the waters south of Mols Hoved, but it has not been possible to identify the aircraft by the pieces of wreckage. However, it must be presumed that this is LAN LM652" (FT 90-106-29) In that case the plane has crashed maybe about here."

See No. 166 Squadron RAF * 166 Squadron RAF-Lincolnshire.info * Lancaster - Wikipedia * Lancaster Photos
Lancaster - Bomber Command Museum of Canada * Avro 683 Lancaster Mk X - IWM Duxford *  Minelaying areas  7 airmen.
Lancaster III LM652 AS-R took off from RAF Kirmington at 20.35 hrs on 26 AUG 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this .)  See p350MACR.  7 airmen.