Tom Yates                                                                                                    Updated: 14 OCT 2021

Airman: e555020.htm Surname: Yates Init: T Rank: Sgt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 115

P_link: p346.htm Plane: LAN LM127 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d270844 Buried_d: e555 C_link: e555.htm At_Next: HOLLAND

Den 27. august 1944 styrtede LAN LM127 ned i Nordsøen under et bombetogt mod Kiel. Hele besætningen omkom. Se p346MACR.

Air Bomber D. F. O'Sullivan blev begravet i Esbjerg den 31. august 1944.
Pilot J. E. Morgan drev ind nær Vester Vedsted (omkring her) og nedgravet der af den tyske værnemagt.
Den 9. november 1945 begravede danskere ham i Esbjerg. (Kilde: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Air Gunner) Tom Yates, 26 år, var søn af Tom og Janet Yates, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Han blev begravet på BERGEN-OP-ZOOM CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY i HOLLAND, 1. H. 10.
(Kilde: CWGC)

2 flyvere fra LAN LM127 blev begravet i Esbjerg og 1 i HOLLAND. 4 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.

Se Lancaster fotos. 7 flyvere.

On 27 August 1944 LAN LM127  crashed in the North Sea on a bombing raid targeting Kiel. All of the crew perished. See p346MACR.
Air Bomber D. F. O'Sullivan was buried in Esbjerg on 31 August 1944.
Pilot J. E. Morgan was washed ashore near Vester Vedsted (about here) and dug down there by the German Wehrmacht.
On 9 November 1945 Danes buried him in Esbjerg. (Source: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Air Gunner) Tom Yates, 26, was the son of Tom and Janet Yates, of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
He was buried in
BERGEN-OP-ZOOM CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY in HOLLAND, 1. H. 10. (Source: CWGC)
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this. He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 270.
382 Lancasters out - 17 lost. More on IBCC at airmen.


2 airmen from LAN LM127 were buried in Esbjerg and 1 in HOLLAND. 4 airmen have no known grave.

See No. 115 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * Lancaster Photos * No. 115 Squadron RAF Memorial.
Lancaster I LM127 KO-H  took off from RAF Witchford at 2027 hrs on 26 AUG 1941. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  

7 airmen.