William Gardiner Smith   Photo: Mogens Jeppesen   Updated: 17 MAR 2022
                                                                        
Airman: a113015.htm Surname: Smith Init: W G 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 (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) William Gardiner Smith var fra 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 (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) William Gardiner Smith was from the United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, P244.   

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.