Ronald Ivor York                                                                                      Updated: 10 MAR 2021

Airman: e777049.htm Surname: York Init: R I Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 405

P_link: p375.htm Plane: LAN PB527 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d160944 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
 

"Under en mission til Kiel den 16. september 1944 nedstyrtede et "Lancaster" fly i Nordsøen. Hele besætningen omkom." (FAF)  Se p375MACR.

Sergeant Ronald Ivor York, 20 år, var søn af Alfred Walter og Ellen Emily York, Wimbledon, Surrey, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 241 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

1 mand er begravet i Sønderho, 1 i Esbjerg og 5 har ikke nogen kendt grav.

Se Lancaster fotos  og Archive Report med detaljer og fotos. 7 flyvere.

This Lancaster crashed in the North Sea on 16 September, 1944 during a bombing raid on Kiel. All of the crew perished. (Source: FAF) See p375MACR.

Sergeant Ronald Ivor York, 20, was the son of Alfred Walter and Ellen Emily York, of Wimbledon, Surrey, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 241, 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 2, Panel 270.

1 airman is buried in Sønderho, 1 in Esbjerg and 5 have no known grave. 

See No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons * No. 405 (City of Vancouver) Squadron RCAF * 405 Squadron Association * No. 405 Squadron RAF Pathfinders
See also Lancaster Photos * Lancaster - Bomber Command Museum of Canada * Avro 683 Lancaster Mk X - IWM Duxford
Lancaster-Wikipedia *  LAN-HAL *  Lancaster photos

Lancaster III PB527 LQ-K took off from RAF Gransden Lodge at 22.35 hrs on 15 SEP 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this and Archive Report.)
7 airmen.