George Kellock Sampson Photo: Mogens Jeppesen
Updated:
25 MAR 2021
Airman: a113019.htm Surname: Sampson
Init: G K Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 9
P_link: p069.htm Plane: WEL X3716 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Near Holbøl
Crash_d: d290442 Buried_d: b090542 C_link: c113.htm At_Next: Aabenraa, R 1-5
WEL X3716
styrtede ned nær Holbøl nord for Kruså den 29. april 1942 kl. 01:15 på vej til
at bombe
Kiel. Alle ombord omkom.
(Kilde: p069MACR)
Sergeant (Pilot) George Kellock Sampson,
23 år, var søn af John Clayton Sampson og
Bessie Kellock Sampson, Lochore, Fife,
United Kingdom.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
De to piloter Sgt Sampson og Sgt Silver synes at
være begravet meget tidligt om morgenen den 9. maj 1942 i Aabenraa.
Sgt Ayres, Sgt Harrison, Sgt Mount og Sgt Stevens blev begravet den 2. maj 1942
i Aabenraa. (FAF)
Se fotos fra denne begravelse.
Nær nedstyrtningsstedet er der
her 400 m nordvest for Holdbi Kro,
Åbenråvej 24A, 6340 Kruså rejst et monument.
6 flyvere.
On 29 April 1942 at 01:15
WEL X3716 crashed near
Holbøl north of Kruså on its way to bomb
Kiel.
All on board perished. (Source:
p069MACR)
Sergeant (Pilot) George Kellock Sampson,
23, was the son of John Clayton Sampson and
Bessie Kellock Sampson, of Lochore,
Fife, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
"He gave me light that I might travel into the unknown"
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, P 237.
It is believed that the two pilots Sgt Sampson
and Sgt Silver were buried in Aabenraa very early in the
morning of 9 May 1942.
Sgt Ayres, Sgt Harrison, Sgt Mount and Sgt Stevens were buried in Aabenraa
on 2
May 1942. (FAF) See photos from this burial.
A monument is
here 400 m northwest of Holdbi Kro,
Åbenråvej 24A, DK-6340 Krusaa near the crash site.
This
Vickers Armstrong Wellington, see also
Vickers Wellington,
was from No. 9
Squadron RAF - Wikipedia. See also IX (B) Squadron Association.
Wellington III X3716 WS-
took off from RAF Honington at 23.07 hrs on 28 APR 1942. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered
has
this.) 6 airmen.