George Herbert Arthur Birch                                                                 Updated: 10 MAY 2021

Airman: e777087.htm Surname: Birch Init: GHA Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 207

P_link: p105.htm Plane: LAN R5628 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d100942 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

"På en mineudlægningsoperation nedstyrtede en Lancaster i havet den 10. september 1942. Samtlige ombordværende omkom." (FAF)
Se Minelægningsområder og p105MACR.

Sergeant George Herbert Arthur Birch, 21 år, var søn af George Albert Birch og Evelyn Maud Birch, Ashford, Middlesex, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 78 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

Fra LAN R5628 er 3 flyvere begravet i Lemvig. 4 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. 7 flyvere.

This Lancaster crashed into the sea during a minelaying operation on 10 September, 1942. All aboard perished. (Source: FAF)

Sergeant George Herbert Arthur Birch, 21, was the son of George Albert Birch, and of Evelyn Maud Birch, of Ashford, Middlesex, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 78, 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 1, Panel  9.

3 airmen from LAN R5628 are buried in Lemvig. 4 airmen have no known grave.

See No. 207 Squadron - Wikipedia * 207 Squadron Royal Air Force History * Lancaster Photos * Welcome to RAF Syerston
Lancaster I R5628 EM-Q took off from RAF Syerston on 09 SEP 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)
7 airmen.