Augustus Spencer Beeby Updated: 29 JAN 2022
Airman: a107005.htm Surname: Beeby Init: A
S Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 82
P_link: p022.htm Plane: BLE T1934 Operation: Attack DK Crash_site: Tranum Klit
Crash_d: d130840 Buried_d: b160840 C_link: c107.htm At_Next: Vadum
BLE T1934 tog del i angrebet på Aalborg, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West den 13. august 1940.
Nedstyrtningsstedet er her.
Google Map p014-024 (Kilde:
Ole Rønnest)
Omtrent sammesteds styrtede Lart´s fly
9.
T 1934 (her). Hverken han selv, Gillingham eller
Beeby kom fri af flyet. Kun
Gillingham blev om eftermiddagen identificeret af
læge Christensen fra Brovst
sygehus (her).
(Find nummeret
(1.-11.) i
angrebet på - i tekst fra Skudt ned over Danmark)
Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner)
Augustus Spencer Beeby, 21 år, var søn af Oswald og Emily Beeby,
Ashbourne,
Derbyshire, United Kingdom. Hæderstegn: DFM, the Distinguished Flying
Medal. (Kilde:
CWGC)
Se 70 år efter.
Den 13. august 2013 blev 2 mindesten for de 6
flyvere nedstyrtet i Tranum Klit afsløret ved nedstyrtningsstederne.
Se
TV2/Nord med
Mindesten for flyvere, 2 min.
udskriv
talen på dansk.
Bombeflyet Bristol
Blenheim. p022MACR
BLE T1934 took part in the attack on
Aalborg airfield, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West, on 13 August, 1940.
The crash site is here.
See also
Google Map p014-024.
(Source:
Ole Rønnest)
Almost at the same place Lart´s
aircraft
9.
T 1934 crashed (here). Neither he, Gillingham
nor
Beeby managed to get out. In the afternoon
Gillingham, as the only one of
the three, was identified by Dr. Christensen from
Brovst Hospital (here).
(Find the number
(1.-11.) in
Attack on - in text from Shot down over Denmark)
Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner)
Augustus Spencer Beeby, 21, was the son of Oswald and Emily Beeby, of Ashbourne,
Derbyshire, United Kingdom.
Awards: DFM, the
Distinguished Flying
Medal. (Source: CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 129.
See No. 82 Squadron RAF
- Wikipedia
* 82 Squadron Blenheims,
Watton, 1940 * Bristol Blenheim
*
Aircraft
Restoration Company, Duxford -
Bristol Blenheim *
Blenheim L6739 -- Rolled Out.
Photo: RAF Memorial,
Watton by Ole Rønnest
The
reconstructed R3821 that visited
Aalborg in 2000 due to efforts by
Ole Rønnest.
Blenheim IV T1934 UX- took off from
RAF Watton at 08:40
on 13 AUG 1940. (Source: Aircrew
Remembered has
this.) Bristol Blenheim
* p022MACR
3 airmen.
