Frederick Dale                                                                                         Updated: 12 AUG 2019

Airman: e777069.htm Surname: Dale Init: F Rank: Cpl Service: RAF Sqdn: 42

P_link: p008.htm Plane: BFO L9810 Operation: Not DK / G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d210640 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

"I forbindelse med et bombeangreb på det tyske slagskib "Scharnhorst", der efter at have fået svære skader i en træfning ved Nordnorge den 8. juni 1940
havde sat kursen mod syd, blev et Beaufort fly fra RAF ramt og styrtede i havet.

Sergeant Frederick Dale, 30 år, var søn af George og Alice Dale; gift med Elsie May Dale, Docking, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Hans navn er på Panel 13 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

Søg Scharnhorst i Google for at se mere.

Fra BFO L9810 blev 1 flyver begravet i Hjardemål Klit Kirkegård, 1 i Haugesund i Norge og 2 har ingen kendt grav.
4 flyvere.

"In connection with a bombing raid on the German battle ship "Scharnhorst", which after having had severe damages in an engagement at the northern
part of Norway on 8 June 1940 had set course south, a Beaufort plane from the RAF was hit and crashed into the sea.

Sergeant Frederick Dale, 30, was the son of George and Alice Dale, and the husband of Elsie May Dale, of Docking, Norfolk, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 13, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)

Search Scharnhorst in Google for more.

From BFO L9810  1 airman was buried in Hjardemål Klit, 1 in Haugesund in Norway and 2 have no known grave.

This Bristol Beaufort was from RAF Coastal Command. See  No. 42 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * Traces of World War 2 RAF No. 42 Squadron.
Beaufort I L9810 AW-M took off from RAF Wick at 14.21 hrs. on 21 JUN 1940 to attack the Scharnhorst.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this and Archive Report.)                                                    4 airmen.