Elgar Barratt                                     Updated:  17 JAN 2022                                Photo: Lars Wikander, 29 AUG 2010

Airman: e222015.htm Surname: Barratt Init: E Rank: F/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 106

P_link: p384.htm Plane: LAN ND682 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: The Kattegat

Crash_d: d161244 Buried_d: e222p C_link: e222p.htm At_Next: Pålsjö, S

Flying Officer (Pilot) Elgar Barratt var fra United Kingdom.
Han er begravet i Sverige i Helsingborg (Palsjo) Municipal Cemetery. (Kilde: CWGC)
Se Pålsjö Kyrkogård.

"15.-16. december 1944 (Kl. 03:53). Sydlige del af Kattegat. Lancaster Mk. III ND682 (ZN- ). 106 BS, 5 BG, Metheringham, Lincs. (Minering ved Gdynia)
5 MIA og 2 KIA (Anholt og Pålsjo, Sverige)

15 Lancasters og 8 Halifaxes skulle kaste miner i danske farvande og i Østersøen. ND682 blev skudt ned i den sydøstlige del af Kattegat af en Ju88 ført af Major Werner Husemann fra I/NJG3 (Grove). Flight engineer Sgt. John Frederick Emerson blev fundet den 6. marts 1945 ca. 8 sømil syd for Anholt, og han blev begravet den næste dag på Anholt kirkegård. Piloten, F/O Edgar Barrett blev fundet ved Kulla Gunnarstorp (nær Kulla Gunnarstorp Slot)  i Sverige og begravet på Pålsjö kirkegård ved Helsingborg den 7. marts 1945. Resten af besætningen har ingen kendt grav." (FT 88-42-38)
Se Lancaster fotos * p384MACR * Minelægningsområder. 7 flyvere.

Flying Officer (Pilot) Elgar Barratt was from the United Kingdom. He is buried in Sweden in
Helsingborg (Palsjo) Municipal Cemetery. (Source: CWGC) See Palsjo Cemetery.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, P 6.   

"15 -16 December 1944 at 03:53. Southern part of the Kattegat. Lancaster Mk. III ND682 (ZN- ). 106 BS,
5 BG, Metheringham, Lincs. (Gardening at Gdynia) 5 MIA and 2 KIA (Anholt and Pålsjo, Sweden)

15 Lancasters and 8 Halifaxes were on a minelaying operation to Danish waters and the Baltic Sea. ND682 was shot down over the south eastern part of the Kattegat (by a Ju88 piloted by Major Werner Husemann from I/NJG3 (Grove). On 6 March 1945 Flight engineer Sgt. John Frederick Emerson was found  about 8 nautical miles south of Anholt, and he was buried the next day in Anholt Cemetery. Pilot, F/O Edgar Barrett was found at Kulla Gunnarstorp (near 
Kulla Gunnarstorp Castle) in Sweden and buried in Pålsjö Cemetery at Helsingborg on 7 March 1945. The rest of the crew have no known grave." (FT 88-42-38)

See  Lancaster * Lancaster photos * No. 106 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * No. 106 Squadron (RAF) during the Second World War * Minelaying areas *  p384MACR.
Lancaster III ND682 ZN-K took off from RAF Metheringham at 00:45 on 15 DEC 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this)  7 airmen.