Douglas A. P. Snoxell                                                                           Updated: 29 MAR 2021

Airman: e777003.htm Surname: Snoxell Init: DAP Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 44

P_link: p378.htm Plane: LAN PB235 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Risgårde Bredning

Crash_d: d041044 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Risgårde Bredning. "På mineudlægningsoperation den 4. oktober 1944 nedstyrtede et Lancaster fly i Risgårde Bredning" (FAF) omkring her.

Se i Weekendavisen den 9. april 2010 Da krigen kom til Salling (pdf 3,05 MB) af Hans Mortensen om dette fly! Modtaget fra forfatteren. Zoom for at se detaljer.
Se også Google Map p378 Lancaster.

Sergeant Douglas Arthur Patrick Snoxell, 19 år, var søn af Thomas William Snoxell, og af Maria Snoxell, Brixton, London, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 238 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

1 blev begravet i Strandby, 1 i Skive (se monument også om de andre faldne) og 1 i Aalestrup. 2 forsvandt i havet. 2 reddede livet og blev taget til fange.

Se Lancaster fotos. Historisk Samling og Arkiv Himmerland har mere om dette fly og dets besætning. 
7 flyvere. 

 Risgårde Bredning. "On a minelaying operation on 4 October 1944 a Lancaster crashed in Risgårde Bredning" (FAF) about here.
See also Google Map p378 Lancaster.

Sergeant Douglas Arthur Patrick Snoxell, 19, was the son of Thomas William Snoxell, and of Maria Snoxell, of Brixton, London, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 238, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 99.

1 airman buried in Strandby, 1 in Skive (see monument also to the 4 other KIA) and 1 in Aalestrup. 2 disappeared at sea. 2 saved their lives and became prisoners of war.

See No. 44 Squadron RAF (Wikipedia) No. 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron Association * No. 44 Squadron (RAF): Second World War. RAF-Lincolnshire.info: 44 Squadron. 
Lancaster III PB235 KM-C took off from RAF Spilsby at 17.24 hrs on 04 OCT 1944.(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) p378MACR * Lancaster Photos.7 airmen.