Ronald Frank Culley                        Updated:  20 NOV 2016

Airman: a106001.htm Surname: Culley Init: R F Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 1403

P_link: p036.htm Plane: BLE V5852 Operation: Other Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d150741 Buried_d: b210941 C_link: c106.htm At_Next: Tønder

 ”Under en meteorologisk observationsflyvning den 15. juni 1941 må et RAF fly være styrtet i Nordsøen. Besætningen, 3 mand, omkom.

Flyets pilot, R.F. Culley, drev i land som lig ved Siltoft den 19. september 1941. Begravet af tysk feltpræst
den 21. september 1941. De øvrige besætningsmedlemmer har ingen kendt grav.” (FAF)

Culley blev fundet omkring 1 km nord for grænsen Danmark-Tyskland, omkring her.
Det fremskudte dige blev bygget 1979-81.

Sergeant (Pilot) Ronald Frank Culley, 20 år, var søn af Horace Henson Culley og Ethel Culley, West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)
999 Squadron skrives i stedet for RAF 1403 Meterorological Flight!  3 flyvere.

"During a meteorological observation flight on 15 June, 1941, an RAF plane must have crashed into the North Sea. The crew of 3 perished.

The body of pilot R.F. Culley drifted ashore at Siltoft on 19 September, 1941. He was buried by a German
army chaplain on 21 September, 1941. The rest of the crew have no known graves.”  (FAF)

Culley was found about 1 km north of the border Denmark-Germany, about here.
The advanced dike was built in 1979-81.

Sergeant (Pilot) Ronald Frank Culley, 20, was the son of Horace Henson Culley and Ethel Culley, of
West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
Horses he loved / laughter and the sun / a dog, wide spaces / and the open air

999 Squadron is written instead of RAF 1403 Meterorological Flight.
This Blenheim took off from RAF Bircham Newton. See also The Blenheim Society. 3 airmen.