Robert S. C. Plowright                                                                            Updated: 07 MAY 2021

Airman: e555010.htm Surname: Plowright Init: RSC Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 999

P_link: p107.htm Plane: WEL HE116 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d140942 Buried_d: e555 C_link: e555.htm At_Next: HOLLAND

Kl. 23.40 den 13. september 1942 lettede  WEL HE116 fra RAF Edgehill på et bombetogt mod Bremen (her).
Flyet gik tabt i havet, antageligt i Nordsøen. Der var ingen overlevende.  (Kilde: p107MACR)

R. F. Stay blev begravet i Esbjerg den 20. oktober 1942. (Kilde: FAF)

Sergeant (Air Gunner) Robert Stewart Crichton Plowright, 34 år, var søn af James Stewart Crichton Plowright og
Elizabeth Plowright, Baslow, Derbyshire; gift med C. Plowright.
Han er begravet på SCHIERMONNIKOOG (VREDENHOF) CEMETERY i Holland, grav 87.
(Kilde: CWGC)

1 flyver fra WEL HE116 blev begravet i Esbjerg og 2 i HOLLAND. 3 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
6  flyvere.

 At 23.40 on 13 September 1942 WEL HE116 took off from RAF Edgehill on a bombing raid targeting Bremen (here).
The plane was lost at sea, North Sea presumed. There were no survivors. (Source: p107MACR)

R. F. Stay was buried in Esbjerg on 20 October 1942. (Source: FAF)

Sergeant (Air Gunner) Robert Stewart Crichton Plowright, 34, was the son of James Stewart Crichton Plowright and
Elizabeth Plowright, of Baslow, Derbyshire, and the husband of C. Plowright.
He is buried in SCHIERMONNIKOOG (VREDENHOF) CEMETERY in HOLLAND, Grave 87. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 85.

1 airman from WEL HE116 was buried in Esbjerg and 2 in HOLLAND. 3 airmen have no known grave.

999 Squadron? RAF 21 OTU!
"No. 21 OTU was formed in January 1941 at RAF Moreton-in-Marsh to train night bomber crews using the Vickers Wellington.
In 1942 is carried out a number of operational sorties." (Wikipedia - here)
6 airmen.