Geoff Adrian Mombrun Updated: 28 APR 2021 Airman: a118007.htm Surname: Mombrun Init: G A Rank: F/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 570 P_link: p426r.htm Plane: STI LJ645 Operation: Drop in DK Crash_site: Skæring near Århus Crash_d: d230445 Buried_d: b100545 C_link: c118.htm At_Next: Århus STI LJ645 skudt i brand af tyske flak på vej til en våbennedkastning. Det styrtede ned her. 3 overlevende flyvere kom 700 m væk fra flyet,
inden de fik hjælp. Se mere ved monument og i
De 3 omkomne flyvere, der sad fastspændt i flyet,
blev næste morgen bjerget ud, bl.a. under Flying Officer (Pilot) Geoff Adrian Mombrun var fra United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC) "Kort før den tyske kapitulation blev der på det
tyske feltlazaret i Århus indlagt en britisk flyver med Da begravelsesvæsenet modtog fortegnelsen over,
hvem der var blevet begravet den 10. maj, kunne De to flyvere (den anden var
R.J. Allen) blev ved
begravelsesvæsenets foranstaltning gravet op den 8. juni 1945 og begravet i et
gravsted kaldet englændergravene. Stiftsprovst Kaj Jensen medvirkede ved denne
højtidelighed." (FAF)
Se Begravelse 8. juni 1945 af G.A.
Mombrun og R.J. Allen. 69 omkomne flyvere mindes på
Mindetavlen i Rebild og i London, se
69 flyvere - St. Clement Danes. STI LJ645 caught fire, when German flak hit it, while it was on its way to drop weapons. It crashed here. 3 surviving airmen got 700 m away from the plane
before they got help. See more at monument,
Google Map p426r and The 3 perished airmen, who were locked in their
seat belts in the plane, were taken out next morning by the security guard and
others. Also the deceased airmen "Shortly before the German surrender a British
airman was taken to the German field hospital with severe burns and injuries.
The patient had a blood transfusion and due to his burns serum was procured for
him
from Århus Municipal Hospital. Attempts to save his life failed. When the burial authorities received the list of those who were buried on 10 May, they saw that among them were two English airmen of which Mombrun was listed as an unknown English soldier. However, wounded airmen at Århus Municipal Hospital shortly after stated his identity. At the instance of the burial authorities the two
airmen (the other was R.J. Allen) were disinterred on 8 June 1945 and buried in
a plot named The English Graves. See 69 perished airmen on the Memorial Plaque in Rebild and in London, 69 airmen - St. Clement Danes.
Royal Air Force WWII 38
Group Squadrons Veterans´ Stories has
this about Mombrun, also
with some information about the rest of the crew of STI LJ645. |