

Alexander Duncan Saint Photo: Mogens Jeppesen
Updated:
17 MAR 2022
Airman: a113013.htm Surname: Saint Init: A
D Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 115
P_link: p066.htm
Plane: WEL X3633 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Near Bevtoft
Crash_d: d260442 Buried_d: b050642
C_link: c113.htm At_Next: Aabenraa,
R 1-6A
"På bombetogt mod
Rostock
nedstyrtede et Wellington fly den 26. april 1942 ved Bevtoft, øst for
Toftlund.
Alle om bord blev dræbt.
De 6 dræbte flyvere blev begravet den 6. maj 1942 kl. 06.30. Marinepræst
Graumann, Flensborg,
foretog jordpåkastelsen." (FAF)
Sandsynligvis var det på samme måde som En begravelse
4 dage tidligere.
Sergeant (Observer) Alexander Duncan Saint,
23 år, britisk statsborger, var søn af Wilfred og
Drusilla Saint, Bonavista,
Newfoundland, Canada.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
Se monument for besætningen på WEL
X3633. 6 flyvere.
A Wellington
crashed on 26. april 1942 at Bevtoft, east of Toftlund on a bombing raid on
Rostock.
All aboard perished.
The 6 killed airmen were buried on 6 May 1942 at 06:30. Navy Chaplain Graumann,
Flensburg,
officiated at the graveside. (Source: FAF) Probably it was in the same way as
A burial 4 days earlier.
Sergeant (Observer) Alexander Duncan Saint,
23, a citizen of the UK, was the son of Wilfred and
Drusilla Saint, of Bonavista,
Newfoundland, Canada. (Source: CWGC)
Greater love hath no man than this. That a man lay down his life for his
friends
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, P 237.
See monument to the crew of WEL X3633.
This
Vickers Armstrong Wellington, see also
Vickers
Wellington, was from
No. 115
Squadron RAF - Wikipedia.
Wellington III X3633 KO-Y
took off from
RAF Marham at 22:23 on 25 APR 1942. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered
has
this.) 6 airmen.
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