Albert Mayes    Photo: Mogens Jeppesen      Updated: 06 OCT 2021
                                                                  
Airman: a113087.htm Surname: Mayes Init: A Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 10

P_link: p257.htm Plane: HAL JD273 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Near Kliplev

Crash_d: d290144 Buried_d: b020244 C_link: c113.htm At_Next: Aabenraa, R 4-20

Den 29. januar 1944 kl. 02.34 styrtede HAL JD273 ned ved Kliplev (som er her) på bombetogt til  Berlin.
Hele besætningen omkom. (Kilde: p257MACR)

Mayes, O'Connor, Saxty, Twigge og Watters blev begravet i Aabenraa den 2. februar 1944.
Da man var klar over, at der måtte være flere dræbte besætningsmedlemmer, fortsatte CBU folk udgravningsarbejdet i foråret og sommeren.
Den 30. april 1944 blev liget af F/O Miles fundet. Han blev begravet den 3. maj 1944.
F/Sgt Dudley blev fundet sidst i august og begravet den 1. september 1944 i Aabenraa. (Kilde: FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator) Albert Mayes, 23 år, var søn af Frank og Alice Mayes, Heywood, Lancashire, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)
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On 29 January 1944 at 0234 hrs HAL JD273 crashed at Kliplev (which is here) on a bombing raid
on Berlin. All of the crew perished. (Source: p257MACR)

Mayes, O'Connor, Saxty, Twigge and Watters were buried in Aabenraa on 2 February 1944.
Knowing that there had to be more killed crew members the excavation work continued in the spring and summer of 1944. On 30 April 1944 the body of F/O Miles was found. He was buried on 3 May 1944.
F/Sgt Dudley was found in late August and buried in Aabenraa on 1 September 1944. (Source: FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator) Albert Mayes, 23, was the son of Frank and Alice Mayes, of Heywood, Lancashire, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
Sincere in heart love and mind  treasured memories you left behind

He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 2, Panel 206.

See No. 10 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * RAF 10 Squadron Association * Halifax * Halifax Print
Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum * Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum
Halifax II JD273 ZA-Y took off from RAF Melbourne  at 2359 hrs on 28 JAN 1944.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this) 7 airmen.