William Bagley Smaill                            Updated: 14 JAN 2022                                                              Photo: Lars Wikander,28 AUG 2010          

Airman: e222024.htm Surname: Smaill Init: W B Rank: F/Lt Service: RNZAF Sqdn: 007

P_link: p347.htm Plane: LAN PB180 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The Baltic Sea

Crash_d: d270844 Buried_d: e222m C_link: e222m.htm At_Next: Malmø, SWEDEN

Den 27. august 1944 styrtede LAN PB180 i Østersøen eller den sydlige del af Øresund. Hele besætningen omkom. Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver:

"382 RAF bombefly bombede de centrale dele af Kiel, og 17 Lancasters gik tabt.
PB180 gik tabt over Østersøen, og liget af flight engineer F/Sgt Albert Kenneth Wooliscroft
drev i land ved Fællesskov rev (omkring her) den 15. september 1944. Tre dage senere blev
han begravet på Lyderslev kirkegård." (FT 88-41-32)

Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) William Bagley Smaill, 32 år, var søn af Charles Stewart Smaill
og Margaret Smaill (f. Bagley), Greenhithe, Auckland, New Zealand. Hæderstegn: DFC, Distinguished Flying Cross. Han er begravet på Malmø Eastern Municipal Cemetery  i SVERIGE. (Kilde: CWGC) Se Östra kyrkogård, Malmø.

1 flyver fra LAN PB180 er begravet i Lyderslev, 1 i Malmø, Sverige, 2 i Kiel, Tyskland og
3 har ingen kendt grav. 7 flyvere.

On 27 August 1944 LAN PB180 crashed in the Baltic Sea or the southern part of the Øresund. All of the crew perished. (Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes:

"382 bombers from the RAF bombed the central parts of Kiel and 17 Lancasters were lost. PB180 was lost over the Baltic Sea. On 15 September 1944 the body of F/Sgt (Flight Engineer) Albert Kenneth Wooliscroft drifted ashore at Fællesskov Rev (about here).
Three days later he was buried in Lyderslev Churchyard." (FT 88-41-32)

Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) William Bagley Smaill, 32, was the son of Charles Stewart Smaill and of Margaret Smaill (née Bagley), of Greenhithe, Auckland, New Zealand. Awards: DFC, the Distinguished Flying Cross. He is buried in Malmø Eastern Municipal Cemetery in SWEDEN. (Source: CWGC) See Östra kyrkogård. He is remembered on The Walls of Names
at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 242.

1 airman from LAN PB180 is buried in Lyderslev, 1 in Malmø, Sweden, 2 in Kiel, Germany and 3 airmen have no known grave.
See Lancaster * Lancaster Photos * No. 7 Squadron RAF -Wikipedia * 7 Squadron Association * IBCC has operational details at each airman.
Lancaster III PB180 MG-F took off from RAF Oakington at 20:03 on 26 AUG 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this) 7 airmen.