Edwin John Rowe Photo: Mogens Jeppesen
Updated:
08 MAY 2021
Airman: a113030.htm Surname: Rowe Init: E
J Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF 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 2-15
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.
Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air
Gunner) Edwin John Rowe, 23 år, var søn af John Gough Rowe
og Emily Sophia Rowe, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.
(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.
Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner)
Edwin John Rowe, 23, was the son of John Gough Rowe and Emily Sophia Rowe,
of Ventnor, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. (Source:
CWGC)
He did his duty for his God and his country
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, P 236.
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.