Raymond Edward Norton Butcher
Mogens Jeppesen
08 MAY 2021
Airman: a113028.htm Surname: Butcher
Init: REN Rank: F/O Service: RAAF Sqdn: 101
P_link: p110.htm Plane: WEL X3815 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Spandet Hede
Crash_d: d210942 Buried_d: b260942 C_link: c113.htm At_Next: Aabenraa, R 2-14
Den 21. september 1942 styrtede
WEL X3815
ned i Spandet mose
her.
(Kilde: Jesper Olesen) 1 km nord for
Nørrehedevej 27, 6780
Skærbæk. "Angrebet af en natjager
i 4.000 fods højde, før flyet nåede målområdet."
p110MACR
R. E. N. Butcher, V. R. Paterson og E. J.
Rowe blev dræbt ved styrtet. De blev begravet i Aabenraa.
C. H. Mitchell og G. L. Otter sprang ud med faldskærm inden styrtet.
Flying Officer Raymond Edward Norton
Butcher, 24 år, var søn af Edward William Timperley Butcher
og Muriel Leura Butcher, Armadale, Western Australia.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
3 flyvere fra
WEL X3815
blev begravet i Aabenraa.
2 flyvere blev
ført til
Tyske krigsfangelejre. 5
flyvere.
On 21 September 1942
WEL X3815 crashed into the Spandet moor
here.
(Source: Jesper Olesen) 1 km north of
Nørrehedevej 27, 6780
Skærbæk. "Attacked by a night-fighter
at 4,000 feet, before reaching the target area." (Lost Bombers)
p110MACR
R. E. N. Butcher, V. R. Paterson and E. J.
Rowe were killed in the crash.
They were buried in Aabenraa. C. H. Mitchell and G. L. Otter bailed out
before the crash.
Flying Officer Raymond Edward Norton Butcher,
24, was the son of Edward William Timperley
Butcher and Muriel Leura Butcher, of
Armadale, Western Australia. (Source: CWGC)
A tribute, in loving memory, to our dear valiant son and brother
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 2, P 139.
Virtual War Memorial Australia has
this.
3 airmen from
WEL X3815 were buried in Aabenraa. 2 airmen
were
taken to
German POW-Camps.
See No. 101 Squadron
RAF (Wikipedia) and
101
Squadron Association.
Wellington
Wellington III X3815 SR- took
off from RAF Stradishall on
21 SEP 1942. (Source: Aircrew
Remembered has
this.)
5 airmen.