Charles S. Stockwell                                                                                Updated: 08 JUL 2022

Airman: e777100.htm Surname: Stockwell Init: C S Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 199

P_link: p246.htm Plane: STI EF154 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Near Hirsholmene

Crash_d: d011243 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

STI EF154 skulle kaste miner ved indsejlingen til havnen i Frederikshavn den 1. december 1943. Flyet blev ramt af flak og styrtede ned i
målområdet mellem Frederikshavn og øerne Hirsholmene omkring her.
Kort efter nedstyrtningen blev ligene af 3 besætningsmedlemmer bjærget, og de blev begravet på Frederikshavn Kirkegård den 8. december 1943.
4 besætningsmedlemmer har ingen kendt grav. (Kilde: FT 89-70-30) Mere i p246MACR.

Sergeant Charles Stanley Stockwell, 27år, var søn af Charles Arthur og Ruth Alice Stockwell, Twickenham, Middlesex, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 166 på the Runnymede Memorial  blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

Den nat blev også STI EF191 skudt ned ved Hemmet i forbindelse med en minelægningsoperation, se Minelægningsområder og links derfra.
Short Stirling. 7 flyvere. 

STI EF154 was to drop mines at the entrance to the harbour of Frederikshavn on 1 December 1943. The plane was hit by flak and crashed
in the drop zone between Frederikshavn and the islands Hirsholmene about here.
The bodies of 3 crew members were recovered shortly after the crash, and they were buried in Frederikshavn Cemetery on 8 December 1943.
4 crew members have no known grave. (Source: FT 89-70-30) More in p246MACR.

Sergeant Charles Stanley Stockwell, 27, was son of Charles Arthur and Ruth Alice Stockwell, of Twickenham, Middlesex, United Kingdom.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 248.
He is commemorated on the  Runnymede Memorial, Panel 166, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)

That night also STI EF191 crashed at Hemmet in connection with a minelaying operation, see Minelaying areas and links from there.

See No. 199 Squadron RAF- Wikipedia * Short Stirling. This Stirling took off from RAF Lakenheath.

Stirling III EF154 EX-V took off from RAF Lakenheath at 15:25 on 1 DEC 1943. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 7 airmen.