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.
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