Brian W. Thynne Updated: 11 OCT 2021
Airman: e777108.htm Surname: Thynne Init: B W Rank: F/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 206
P_link: p332.htm Plane: B24 EV947 Operation: Anti ship Crash_site: Skagerrak
Crash_d: d150744 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
B24 EV947
forsvandt den 15. juli 1944 under anti shipping patrulje over Nordsøen og
Skagerrak. Flyet formodes nødlandet i Skagerrak.
Liget af F/O L.B. Mollard blev fundet ved Højen (omkring
her) den 4. september,
og den 7. september blev han begravet på Skagen Kirkegård af
pastor H.P. Waage
Beck.
Et andet besætningsmedlem, P/O Hilton, blev fundet i en gummibåd på havet, og
han er begravet i England.
Fra B24 EV947 har 8 flyvere ingen kendt grav. (Kilder: FT 89-72-37 og FAF)
Flying Officer Brian Winslow Thynne, 31
år, var søn af Herbert Sayer Thynne og af Evelyn Mary Thynne (f. Tomlinson),
Hereford. B.A. (Cantab.)
United Kingdom.
Hans navn er
på Panel 209 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere,
der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)
10 flyvere.
On 15 July 1944
B24 EV947 disappeared on an anti shipping
patrol over the North Sea and the Skagerrak, presumably ditched in the Skagerrak.
The body of F/O L.B. Mollard was found at Højen (about
here) on 4 September, and
he was buried in Skagen Cemetery on 7 September by
vicar H.P. Waage Beck.
Another crew member, P/O Hilton, was found in a dinghy at sea, and he is buried
in England.
8 airmen from B24 EV947 have no known grave. (Sources: FT 89-72-37 and FAF)
Flying Officer Brian Winslow Thynne, 31,
was the son of Herbert Sayer Thynne and of Evelyn Mary Thynne (née Tomlinson), of
Hereford. B.A. (Cantab.) United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the
Runnymede Memorial, Panel 209, among more than 20,000
airmen who have no known grave. (Source:
CWGC)
This
B-24 Liberator from
No. 206 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia - a plane from Coastal
Command - took
off from RAF Leuchars.
See also RAF Leuchars - RAF Station
homepage.
10 airmen.