Thomas Eckford Girvan Updated: 29 JAN 2022
Airman: a107019.htm Surname: Girvan Init: T
E Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 82
P_link: p018.htm Plane: BLE R3829 Operation: Attack DK Crash_site: Torpet Kær, Vadum
Crash_d: d130840 Buried_d: b160840 C_link: c107.htm At_Next: Vadum
BLE R3829 tog del i angrebet på Aalborg, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West den 13. august 1940.
Nedstyrtningsstedet er her.
Google Map p014-024 (Kilde:
Ole Rønnest)
5.
R
3829 styrtede ned (her) øst for Vadum. Moore og
Girvan kom ikke fri af det brændende
fly. Kun Squadron Leader Wardell overlevede stærkt forbrændt. Hermed var
B-flighten udslettet.
(Find nummeret
(1.-11.) i
angrebet på - i tekst fra Skudt ned over Danmark)
Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner)
Thomas Eckford Girvan, 19 år, var søn af William Johnston Girvan og
Catherine Ormiston Eckford Girvan, Dagenham, Essex, United Kingdom.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
Bombeflyet Bristol
Blenheim.
p018MACR
BLE R3829 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)
5.
R
3829 crashed (here). Moore
and
Girvan did not manage to get out of the
burning aircraft. Only Squadron Leader Wardell survived, badly burnt. The entire
B-flight
had been eliminated. (Find the number
(1.-11.) in
Attack on - in text from Shot down over Denmark)
Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner)
Thomas Eckford Girvan, 19, was the son of William Johnston Girvan and Catherine
Ormiston Eckford Girvan, of Dagenham, Essex, United Kingdom. (Source:
CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 170.
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 R3829 UX- took off from RAF Watton at 08:40 on 13 AUG 1940. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) Bristol Blenheim * p018MACR 3 airmen.