Robert Leslie Sinclair Ritchie Photo:Lars Wikander 2008  Upd: 18 MAR 2022

Airman: e222020.htm Surname: Ritchie Init: RLS Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 012

P_link: p100.htm Plane: WEL Z8538 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d180842 Buried_d: e222o C_link: e222o.htm At_Next: Öckerö, S

Den 18. august 1942 styrtede WEL Z8538 i Nordsøen. Hele besætningen omkom.
Dette fly lettede fra RAF Binbrook kl. 20.35 den 18. august 1942 med brandbomber og brochurer.
Mål: Flensborg. Gået tabt i havet. (Kilde: p100MACR)

Flight Sergeant (Observer) Robert Leslie Sinclair Ritchie var fra United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)
Han blev begravet på Öckerö i Sverige.

1 flyver fra WEL Z8538 blev begravet i Frederikshavn og 2 i Öckerö, Sverige.
2 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
5 flyvere.

On 18 August 1942  WEL Z8538 crashed into the North Sea. All of the crew perished.
This bomber took off from RAF Binbrook at 2035 hrs. on 18 August 1942 with incendiaries and leaflets
targeting Flensburg. Lost at sea. (Source: p100MACR)

Flight Sergeant (Observer) Robert Leslie Sinclair Ritchie was from the United Kingdom. (CWGC)
He was buried in Öckerö, SWEDEN.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 90.

1 airman from WEL Z8538 was buried in Frederikshavn and 2 in Öckerö, SWEDEN. 2 airmen have no known grave.

See No. 12 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * 12 Squadron RAFA * 12 Squadron RAF at RAF-Lincolnshire.info.
Vickers Wellington - Tangmere * Vickers Wellington. Wellington II Z8538 PH-O took off from RAF Binbrook 
at 20:35 on 18 AUG 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 
5 airmen.