

Andrew Greenhill Cameron
Photo: Mogens Jeppesen Updated:
11 MAY 2021
Airman: a113046.htm Surname: Cameron
Init: A G Rank: F/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 44
P_link: p129.htm
Plane: LAN W4277 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Søst Skov (Forest)
Crash_d: d080143 Buried_d: b160143
C_link: c113.htm At_Next: Aabenraa,
R 2-5
Den 8. januar 1943 styrtede
LAN W4277 ned i Søst Skov
her ca. 4 km vest for Aabenraa.
Se monument
på nedstyrtningsstedet. Hele besætningen omkom. De 7 flyvere blev begravet i
Aabenraa.
Flying Officer (Navigator) Andrew Greenhill
Cameron, 33 år, var søn af Alexander og Mary Ann
Cameron; gift med Mary
Cowan Cameron, Gourock, Renfrewshire, United Kingdom.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
Den 8. januar 1943 kl. 17.36 startede denne Lancaster fra RAF Waddington
på en mineudlægnings- operation til Daffodil-området omkring
her i Øresund.
Det blev angrebet af en tysk natjager og styrtede ned kl. 19.40. (Kilde: AOD)
Se
Minelægningsområder.
7 flyvere.
On 8 January 1943
LAN W4277 crashed in the Søst Skov (Forest)
here about 4 km west of Aabenraa. See monument
at the crash site. All of the crew
perished. The 7 airmen were buried in Aabenraa.
Flying Officer (Navigator) Andrew Greenhill
Cameron, 33, was the son of Alexander and
Mary Ann Cameron, and the husband of Mary Cowan Cameron, of Gourock,
Renfrewshire,
United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, P 16.
On 8 January 1943 at 17.36 hours
LAN W4277 took off
from RAF Waddington on a minelaying operation
to the Daffodil-area about
here in the Sound. See
Minelaying areas.
It was attacked by a German night fighter and crashed at 19.40 hours. (Source:
AOD)
See
No. 44 Squadron
RAF - Wikipedia *
Lancaster Photos *
RAF-Lincolnshire.info: 44 Squadron
RAF Waddington now
Lancaster I W4277 KM-S
took off from
RAF Waddington at
17.36 hrs on 08 JAN 1943. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered
has
this.) 7 airmen. |