Roy A. Heathcote                                                                                     Updated: 21 MAR 2022

Airman: e777075.htm Surname: Heathcote Init: R A Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 15

P_link: p109.htm Plane: STI R9351 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Storebælt off Nyborg

Crash_d: d190942 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

 Om STI R9351 på informationstavlen ved propellen placeret her:

"Flyet startede tidligt om morgenen den 19. september 1942 fra England, og var på en minelægningsopgave sydvest for Sprogø, da det kl. 06.30, i 200 meters højde, blev skudt ned af tysk antiluftsskyts. Det medbragte 8-10 søminer og et ukendt antal L-bomber."

Sergeant Roy Alan Heathcote, 21 år, var søn af Sydney John og Harriet Heathcote, Enfield, Middlesex, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 85 på the  blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

6 flyvere fra  STI R9351 omkom, og ingen af dem har en kendt grav. 1 mand overlevede og blev som krigsfange sendt til Stalag Luft III.   
7 flyvere.

About STI R9351 on the information table at the propeller placed here:

"The plane took off in the early morning of 19th September 1942 from England and was on a mining mission southwest of Sprogø when it was shot down from 600 feet by German anti-aircraft guns at 06.30. The plane carried 8 - 10 mines and an unknown number of L-bombs. 5 crew members perished. The co-pilot, John Miller Steel, survived. The crew consisted of two pilots, three gunners and one bomber."

Sergeant Roy Alan Heathcote, 21, was son of Sydney John and Harriet Heathcote, of Enfield, Middlesex, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 85, 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 180.

6 airmen from STI R9351 perished and none of them has a known grave. See Photos of Thomas C. Smith. 1 man survived and was as a POW taken to Stalag Luft III.

See No. 15 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * p109MACR has more.

Stirling I R9351 LS-R took off from RAF Bourn at 20:05 on 18 SEP 1942, crashed 00:39 19 SEP. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this + Archive Report.) 7 airmen.