William Sheldon    Photo: Mogens Jeppesen      Updated: 04 MAR 2021
                                                                      
Airman: a113036.htm Surname: Sheldon Init: W Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF 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 2-13

 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)

Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) William Sheldon, 21 år, var søn af Frank og
Mabel Sheldon, Dronfield, Derbyshire, United Kingdom. (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)

Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) William Sheldon, 21, was the son of Frank and
Mabel Sheldon, of Dronfield, Derbyshire, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)  He is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 240.

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.