Ernest Booth
Updated: 10 JUN 2022
Airman: e777032.htm Surname: Booth Init: E
Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 149
P_link: p165.htm Plane: STI BK698 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea
Crash_d: d200443 Buried_d: e777
C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
"På en mission til Lübeck natten til den
21. april 1943 forsvandt et "Stirling" fly over Nordsøen. Hele besætningen
omkom.
Flyets navigatør, D. I. McNarey, inddrev som lig ved
Thyborøn. Han begravedes
den 15. maj 1943 af sognepræst Lund.
7 andre besætningsmedlemmer har ingen kendt grav." (FAF)
Archive
Report og
IBCC angiver målet som
Rostock.
Pilot Officer Ernest Booth, 30 år, var søn
af Frederick og Elizabeth Booth, West Hartlepool, Co. Durham; gift med Eva
Parsons Booth, West Hartlepool,
United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 130 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne
på andre flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde:
CWGC)
Se Stettin + Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943. Stirling
8 flyvere.
On a mission to
Lübeck on the night
before 21 April, 1943 a "Stirling" disappeared over the North Sea. All of the
crew perished.
The body of Navigator D. I. McNarey drifted in at
Thyborøn. He was buried on 15
May, 1943 by Rector Lund, the parish of Lemvig.
7 other members of the crew have no known grave. (FAF) Archive
Report and the
IBCC mentions Rostock
as the target.
Pilot Officer Ernest Booth, 30, was the son of
Frederick and Elizabeth Booth, of West Hartlepool, Co. Durham, and the husband of Eva
Parsons Booth,
of West Hartlepool, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the
Runnymede Memorial, Panel 130, among more than 20,000
other airmen who have no known grave. (Source:
CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 133.
See
No. 149 Squadron
RAF - Wikipedia * Stettin +
Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943 *
Stirling * Royal Air Force
Lakenheath
Stirling III BK698 OJ-O took off from
RAF Lakenheath at 22.03 hrs on 20 APR 1943. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered has
this
+ Archive
Report.)
8 airmen.