Reginald Philip Gent                                 Updated: 25 MAR 2021

Airman: a110002.htm Surname: Gent Init: R P Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 149

P_link: p081.htm Plane: STI R9310 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Storebælt off Asnæs

Crash_d: d170542 Buried_d: b110842 C_link: c110.htm At_Next: Kirke Værløse

Den 18. maj 1942 kl. 01.40 (Kilde: MACR) styrtede STI R9310 i Storebælt 10 km SV for Kalundborg. p081MACR  Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver:
"17.-18. maj 1942 Storebælt SV for Asnæs, 10 km SV for Kalundborg. Stirling Mk. 1 R9310 (OJ-P).
149 BS, 3 BG, Lakenheath, Suffolk. (Minering i Øresund)" (FT 88-31-2)

"R.P. Gent blev fundet i Kattegat og begravelsen fandt sted den 11. august 1942. I højtideligheden deltog
et æreskompagni fra Luftwaffe under kommando af en officer. Der blev talt af både den tyske feltpræst Johannes Vorrath og af den danske sognepræst. Efter jordpåkastelsen blev der afgivet æressalut." (FAF)

Pilot Officer (Observer) Reginald Philip Gent, 33 år, var søn af James Thomas Gent og Mary Hannah Gent; gift med Stella Eva Gent (f. Wright), Kettering, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

4 flyvere fra STI R9310 blev begravet i Kalundborg og 1 i Kirke Værløse. 2 har ingen kendt grav. 7 flyvere.

On 18 May 1942 at 01.40 hours (Source: MACR) STI R9310 crashed into the Storebælt 10 km SW of Kalundborg.  p081MACR   (Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes:
"17-18 May 1942 Storebælt SW of Asnæs, 10 km SW of Kalundborg.
Stirling Mk. 1 R9310 (OJ-P). 149 BS, 3 BG, Lakenheath, Suffolk. (Mining in the Sound)" (FT 88-31-2)

"R.P. Gent was found in the Kattegat. He was buried on 11 August 1942. A company of honour from the Luftwaffe under the command of an officer took part in the ceremony. The German army chaplain
Johannes Vorrath and the Danish vicar made funeral orations and officiated at the graveside.
Then a salute of honour was fired." (FAF)

Pilot Officer (Observer) Reginald Philip Gent, 33, was the son of James Thomas Gent and
Mary Hannah Gent and the husband of Stella Eva Gent (née Wright), of Kettering, Northamptonshire,
United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)  He is remembered on The Walls of Names at
the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 168. 

4 airmen  from STI R9310 were buried in Kalundborg and 1 in Kirke Værløse. 2 have no known grave.
See Bomber Command No. 149 Squadron and 149 Squadron History.  This Stirling took off from RAF Lakenheath. 7 airmen.