Albert Alexander Smith                                                                           Updated: 04 MAR 2021

Airman: e777005.htm Surname: Smith Init: A A Rank: F/S Service: RCAF Sqdn: 408

P_link: p078.htm Plane: HAM AD803 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Sea S of Samsø

Crash_d: d160542 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

HAM AD803 var på en minelægningsoperation mod området Pumpkin (se Minelægningsområder).
Flyet styrtede i havet syd for Samsø omkring her og A.A. Smith omkom. Han har ingen kendt grav.

Flight Sergeant Albert Alexander Smith, 25 år, var søn af H. Alexander Smith og Hattie J. Smith, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Hans navn er på Panel 106 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

Fra HAM AD803 er 1 flyver begravet i Aarhus, 1 i Tranebjerg og 1 har ingen kendt grav. 1 blev krigsfange.
4 flyvere.

HAM AD803 was on a minelaying operation targeting Pumpkin (see Minelaying areas).
HAM AD803 crashed, burning, into the sea south of Samsø, about here and A.A. Smith perished. He has no known grave.

Flight Sergeant Albert Alexander Smith, 25, was the son of H. Alexander Smith and Hattie J. Smith, of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the BC Museum of Canada. The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 106, 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 98.

1 airman from HAM AD803 is buried in Aarhus, 1 in Tranebjerg and 1 has no known grave. 1 became a Prisoner of War.

See No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons * No. 408 (Goose) Squadron RCAF * 408 "Goose" Squadron Association.

Hampden I AD803 EQ-L took off from RAF Balderton at 22.35 hrs on 15 MAY 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)
4 airmen.