Albert Edward Simmans  Photo: Mogens Jeppesen    Updated: 17 MAR 2022
                                                                          
Airman: a113014.htm Surname: Simmans Init: A E 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 1-6

 "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 (Air Gunner) Albert Edward Simmans, 23 år, var søn af Albert Edward og
Lily Beatrice Simmans, Barking, Essex, United Kingdom. (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 (Air Gunner) Albert Edward Simmans, 23, was the son of Albert Edward and
Lily Beatrice Simmans, of Barking, Essex, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
What we keep in memory is ours, unchanged for ever

He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, P 241.   

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.