Leonard Robert Sims                   Updated: 09 MAY 2021                                                                          Photo: Lars Wikander

Airman:
 e222019.htm Surname: Sims Init: L R Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 149

P_link: p096.htm Plane: STI R9162 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: The Skagerrak

Crash_d: d110842 Buried_d: e222 C_link: e222k.htm At_Next: Kviberg, S

Den 11. august 1942 styrtede STI R9162 i Skagerrak under en minelægningsoperation (måske omkring her - Kilde: AOD). Hele besætningen omkom.
Sgt James Henry Storey blev fundet som lig på havet 4 km fra Hjardemål Klit (omkring her). Hans navn stod skrevet i den redningskrans, man fandt ham i. Han blev begravet i Frederikshavn den 17. september 1942.
F/Sgt C. W. S. Oliver blev begravet i Larvik i Norge, mens Sgt L. R. Sims blev begravet på Kviberg Kirkegård
ved Gøteborg i Sverige.
4 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. (Kilde: FAF)

Sergeant (Observer) Leonard Robert Sims var fra United Kingdom.
Han blev begravet på Kviberg Cemetery i Sverige.
(Kilde: CWGC

Se p096MACR og Minelægningsområder. 7 flyvere. 

On 11 August 1942 STI R9162 crashed in the Skagerrak on a minelaying operation (maybe about here - Source: AOD). All of the crew perished.
The body of Sgt J. H. Storey was found at sea 4 km off Hjardemål Klit (about here). He was found in a lifebuoy
with his name on. He was buried in Frederikshavn on 17 September 1942.
F/Sgt C. W. S. Oliver was buried in Larvik in Norway, while Sgt L. R. Sims was buried in Kviberg Cemetery at Gothenburg in Sweden.
4 airmen have no known grave. (Source: FAF)

Sergeant (Observer) Leonard Robert Sims was from the United Kingdom.
He was buried in Kviberg Cemetery in Sweden. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 242. 

No. 149 Squadron RAF * Stirling
Stirling I R9162 OJ-Q took off from RAF Mildenhall on 11 AUG 1942 targeting Silverthorn, Kattegat. Lost at sea. (Source: p096MACR) See map of Minelaying areas.
Stirling I R9162 OJ-Q took off from RAF Lakenheath on 10 AUG 1942 targeting Silverthorn, Kattegat.
(Source: 
Aircrew Remembered has this.) 7 airmen.