John Maxwell Rankin Photo: Mogens Jeppesen
Updated:
04 MAR 2021
Airman: a113035.htm Surname: Rankin Init: J
M Rank: Sgt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 405
P_link: p112.htm Plane: HAL W1274 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Ellesø Mose
Crash_d: d240942 Buried_d: b260942 C_link: c113.htm At_Next: Aabenraa, R 2-10
Den 24. september 1942 styrtede
HAL W1274 ned i Ellesø Mose nordøst for Kruså.
Alle 7 besætningsmedlemmer omkom.
Flyverne blev begravet den 26. september 1942 i Aabenraa.
Pastor Carl Beuck forestod begravelsen og foretog jordpåkastelsen. (Kilde: FAF)
Sergeant (Flight Engineer) John Maxwell Rankin
var søn af Joseph og Jane Stevenson Rankin,
Paddockwood, Saskatchewan, Canada.
(Kilde: CWGC)
Se monument rejst ved nedstyrtningsstedet
her 64 år senere.
Se p112MACR *
Halifax Print * Halifax Mk III på
YAM 2019 *
folk bag en Halifax klar til en
mission.
7 flyvere.
HAL W1274 crashed into Ellesø Moor northeast of Kruså on 24
September, 1942.
All 7 members of the crew perished.
The airmen were buried on 26 September, 1942 in Aabenraa.
Vicar Carl Beuck carried out the burial and officiated at the graveside. (Source:
FAF)
Sergeant (Flight Engineer) John Maxwell Rankin
was the son of Joseph and Jane Stevenson Rankin,
of Paddockwood, Saskatchewan,
Canada. (Source: CWGC)
His name is
engraved on the
Memorial Wall at the BC Museum of
Canada.
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has
this.
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names
at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 230.
See
monument erected at the crash site
here 64 years later.
See
No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons *
No. 405 (City of Vancouver) Squadron RCAF
405 Squadron Association *
No. 405 Squadron RAF
Pathfinders
Halifax-Wikipedia*Halifax Print*Halifax-BC
Museum.Canada *
Halifax-RAF Museum
Halifax-The Yorkshire Air
Museum * Halifax Mk III
at YAM 2019*LAN-HAL.
Halifax II LQ-R took off from
RAF Topcliffe at
19.00 hrs on 23 SEP 1942.
(Source:
Aircrew Remembered has
this and details.)
See p112MACR. 7 airmen.