Gordon Herbert Surridge  Photo: Mogens Jeppesen  Updated: 16 MAR 2022
                                                                        
Airman: a113009.htm Surname: Surridge Init: G H Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 15

P_link: p067.htm Plane: STI W7514 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Near Kravlund

Crash_d: d260442 Buried_d: b020542 C_link: c113.htm At_Next: Aabenraa, R 1-11

Den 26. april 1942 styrtede STI W7514 ned ved Kravlund her ca. 300 m øst for
Julianehåbvej 32, 6360 Tinglev på et bombetogt mod Rostock. Short Stirling.
Flyets radiotelegrafist, Sgt. East, var blevet dræbt i luften inden nedstyrtningen.

Et andet besætningsmedlem, Sgt. Surridge, blev hårdt såret ført fra en gårdejer i Pebersmark til Tønder Sygehus, hvor han døde den 28. april 1942. Begge flyvere blev begravet i Aabenraa den 2. maj 1942.
(Kilde: FAF)

Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Gordon Herbert Surridge, 25 år, var søn af Mr. og Mrs. D. Surridge; gift med Eileen Nora Surridge, Abbey Wood, Kent, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

2 flyvere fra STI W7514 blev begravet i Aabenraa. 6 blev krigsfanger. 8 flyvere. 

On 26 April 1942 STI W7514 crashed at Kravlund here about 300 m east of
Julianehåbvej 32, 6360 Tinglev on a bombing raid on Rostock.
Wireless Operator, Sgt East had been killed in the air before the crash.

Another crew member, Sgt Surridge, was taken, severely wounded, from a farmer's in Pebersmark to
Tønder Hospital, where he died on 28 April 1942. Both airmen were buried in Aabenraa on 2 May 1942. (Source: FAF)

Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Gordon Herbert Surridge, 25, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Surridge, and the husband of Eileen Nora Surridge, of Abbey Wood, Kent, United Kingdom. (CWGC)
He bare them on eagles´ wings, and brought them unto himself

He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, P 249. 

2 airmen from STI W7514 were buried in Aabenraa. 6 were captured.
See No. 15 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * XV (R) Squadron * Stirling.  
Stirling I W7514 LS-B took off from RAF Wyton at 21:50 on 25 APR 1942.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) p067MACR has more. 8 airmen.