Neville
Carroll
Updated:
19
JAN 2022
Photo: 03 SEP 2010
Airman: e666001.htm Surname: Carroll
Init: N Rank: F/O Service: RAAF Sqdn: 196
P_link: p437r.htm
Plane: STI LK193 Operation: Drop in DK Crash_site: Sheringham/Cromer
Crash_d: d030445 Buried_d: b111111
C_link: e666c.htm At_Next: Cambridge,UK
Denne flyver er en af
69 omkomne flyvere mindet på Flyverstenen i
Rebild, se
Rebild 2012.
Han mindes også i London.
Se 69 flyvere - St. Clement Danes.
Finn Buch har indhentet disse oplysninger i kort form, her som almindelig
tekst:
Natten mellem 2. og 3. april 1945 var
Stirling MK IV LK193 på operation SOE Tablejam 260
med containere,
der skulle nedkastes i Danmark. Det forlod flybasen Shepherds
Grove kl. 2230, men styrtede ud for kysten
ved
Sheringham kl. 2250!
(Ulykkesbeskrivelsen: "Flyet vides at have ramt havet og eksploderet ud for den
britiske kyst, nær Cromer. Det vides ikke om styrtet skyldtes en teknisk fejl."
Cromer er 6,5 km øst for
Sheringham.) Hele
besætningen døde med undtagelse af flyversergent Bennett, som senere døde af sine
kvæstelser den 2. juni 1945. CWGC bruger 3. april som dødsdato for
andre
besætningsmedlemmer, så den dato bruges også her som dato for nedstyrtningen.
Flying Officer Neville Carroll, 23
år, var søn af Lenord Neville Carroll og Sarah Elizabeth Carroll; gift med
Linda
May Carroll, Camden, New South Wales, Australien.
Han hviler på
Cambridge City Cemetery sammen med 4 af de andre besætningsmedlemmer i
fællesgrav
15763-15765.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
This airman is one of
69 perished airmen commemorated on the Aviator
Stone in Rebild, see
Rebild 2012.
He is also commemorated in London. See
69 airmen - St. Clement Danes.
Finn Buch has obtained this information in a short version, here as plain
text:
During the night between 2 April and 3 April 1945
Stirling MK IV LK193 was on Operation SOE Tablejam 260
with containers to be dropped in Denmark. It left Shepherds Grove Air Base at
2230 hrs, but crashed off the coast at
Sheringham at 2250 hrs! (Description
of Accident: "The aircraft is known to have struck the sea and exploded off the
British Coast, near Cromer. Not known whether crash was due to a technical
defect."
Cromer is 4 miles
east of Sheringham.) The whole crew
died except F/Sgt Bennett, who later died from his
injuries 2 June 1945.
The CWGC uses the date of death 3 April for
other crewmembers, so that date
is also
used here as date for the crash.
Flying Officer Neville Carroll, 23,
was the son of Lenord Neville Carroll and Sarah Elizabeth Carroll, and the
husband of Linda
May Carroll, of Camden,
New South Wales, Australia.
He rests in the
Cambridge City Cemetery
with 4 of the other crewmembers in Coll. grave 15763-15765. (Source:
CWGC)
His duty fearlessly and nobly done. Always remembered.
Virtual War Memorial Australia has
this.
See No. 196
Squadron RAF -Wikipedia *196 Sqn at
Unit Histories. This
Stirling took off from
RAF Shepherds Grove.
Google Map Rebild. 6 flyvere.
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