Reginald James Allen Updated: 28 APR 2021
Airman: a118008.htm Surname: Allen Init: R J Rank: F/Lt Service: RAF Sqdn: 547
P_link: p433.htm Plane: B24 KK299 Operation: Anti ship Crash_site: Kattegat
Crash_d: d050545 Buried_d: b100545
C_link: c118.htm At_Next: Århus
Den 5. maj 1945 var 4 tyske U-både på vej
mod Norge, hvor krigen endnu ikke var slut.
Britiske fly ville standse denne
trafik. De cirklede rundt om U-bådene og en U-båd åbnede ild
kl. 19.30.
B24 KK299 kastede en bombe tæt på U-534 som
fortalt i
den lange version.
U-båden skød tilbage og
B24 KK299 styrtede i havet nordøst for Anholt 3 sømil fra U-båden.
U-534 sank omkring
her.
De 11 flyvere omkom.
2 tyske skibe opsamlede
overlevende fra U-534 og liget af Flight Lieutenant (Navigator)
R. J. Allen,
der blev sejlet til Århus og begravet på Vestre Kirkegård.
(Kilde: FT 91-11-58)
Flight Lieutenant (Navigator / Bomber)
Reginald James Allen, 33 år, var søn af Herbert og Ellen Elizabeth Allen;
gift med Eveline Allen, Northenden, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
Mombrun og Allen blev sammen med ca. 100 tyskere begravet i den tyske soldaterfællesgrav
den
10. maj 1945. En tysk præst medvirkede ved denne højtidelighed.
Da begravelsesvæsenet modtog fortegnelsen over,
hvem der var blevet begravet den 10. maj, kunne
man konstatere, at der blandt de
begravede var 2 engelske flyvere, hvoraf Mombrun var opgivet som ukendt engelsk
soldat. Fra sårede flyvere på Århus Kommunehospital fik man imidlertid kort
efter
oplyst hans identitet.
De to flyvere Mombrun
og 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. (Kilde: FAF)
Se Begravelse 8. juni 1945 af G.A.
Mombrun og R.J. Allen.
On 5 May 1945 4 German U-boats were
heading for Norway, where the war was not over yet.
British planes wanted to stop
this traffic. They circled around the
U-boats
and a U-boat opened fire
at 19.30 hours.
B24 KK299 dropped a bomb close to U-534 as told in
the long version.
The U-boat returned the fire and
B24 KK299 crashed
into the sea north east of Anholt 3 nautical miles
from
the U-boat.
U-534 sank about
here. The 11 airmen perished.
2 German ships retrieved survivors from U-534 and the body of
Flight Lieutenant (Navigator)
Reginald James Allen, who was taken to Århus, to
Aarhus West Cemetery.
(Source: FT 91-11-58)
Flight Lieutenant (Navigator / Bomber) Reginald James Allen, 33, was the son of Herbert and Ellen Elizabeth Allen, and the husband of Eveline Allen, of Northenden, Lancashire, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
Together with about 100 Germans
Mombrun and Allen were buried in the German military common
grave on 10 May, 1945. A German chaplain took part in the
ceremony. 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 Mombrun and Allen were disinterred on 8 June 1945 and buried in
a plot named The English Graves.
Dean Kaj Jensen took part in the ceremony. (Source: FAF) See
Burial 8 June 1945 of G.A.
Mombrun and R.J. Allen.
This B-24 Liberator took off from RAF Leuchars. See 547 Squadron * Coastal Command * No. 541 - 598 Squadron Histories and the badge of 547 Squadron. 11 airmen.