Marcel Alfred Barnard Watkins                                                         Updated: 26 NOV 2021

Airman: e777020.htm Surname: Watkins Init: MAB Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAAF Sqdn: 100

P_link: p167.htm Plane: LAN ED709 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Ringkøbing Fjord

Crash_d: d210443 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Efter at have bombet Stettin blev Lancaster ED 709 på hjemvejen ramt af flak ved Jyllands vestkyst. Kl. 03:28 styrtede det i Ringkøbing Fjord
på lavt vand her ca. 600 m fra kysten. Alle 7 besætningsmedlemmer blev dræbt ved styrtet. 1 mand har ikke nogen kendt grav. De 6 andre blev
begravet efterhånden som de blev fundet -  Sgt R.A. Whellams i 1998!
I første omgang blev Sgt T. Carter og Sgt R.S. Sidwell begravet som ukendte - senere identificeret af danskere. Se Helge W. Gram - Lancaster ED709.
Se fotos og mere i Flyvere identificeret  1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5  Google Map p167 Lancaster ED709

F/Sgt M.A.B. Watkins er aldrig blevet fundet.

Flight Sergeant Marcel Alfred Barnard Watkins, 22 år, var søn af Hubert og Yvonne Watkins, Waverton, New South Wales, Australien.
Hans navn er på Panel 194 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på andre flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde:CWGC)

Se Lancaster fotos og  Stettin + Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943. 7 flyvere.

Returning from a bombing raid to Stettin Lancaster ED 709 was hit by flak at the west coast of Jutland. At 03:28 it crashed into the shallow
waters of the Ringkøbing Fjord here about 600 m off the coast. All 7 members of the crew perished in the crash. 1 man has no known grave.
The 6 others were buried in the course of time when they were found - Sgt R.A. Whellams in 1998!
At first Sgt T. Carter and Sgt R.S. Sidwell were buried as unknown - later identified by Danes. See Helge W. Gram - Lancaster ED709.
See photos and more on Airmen identified 1*2*3*4*5   Google Map p167 Lancaster ED709

F/Sgt M.A.B. Watkins has never been found.

Flight Sergeant Marcel Alfred Barnard Watkins, 22, was the son of Hubert and Yvonne Watkins, of Waverton, New South Wales, Australia.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 194, among more than 20,000 other airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
Virtual War Memorial Australia has this. He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 112.  

See No.100 Squadron RAF-Wikipedia * No. 100 Squadron Association * RAF-Lincolnshire with RAF Grimsby * Lancaster * Lancaster Photos.
Lancaster III ED709 HW-S took off from RAF Grimsby at 21.59 hrs on 20 APR 1943. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)
It had a Rolls-Royce Merlin variant XX engine produced by Rolls-Royce in the United Kingdom. (Source: The RAF Museum, London)
See Stettin + Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943. 7 airmen.