Den 30. august 1944 styrtede
LAN EE193 i
Kattegat, måske 5 km nordvest for Sejerø.
Se
p367MACR. Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver:
"403 RAF bombefly
fløj til Stettin (Szczecin), medens 189
Lancasters bombede Königsberg
(Kaliningrad). 38 Lancasters
gik tabt.
Over den nordlige
del af Storebælt rapporteredes
et bombefly nedskudt af
en tysk natjager ca. kl. 01.00.
Liget af flight engineer F/Sgt Geoffrey Wilkinson Battersby blev fundet ilanddrevet ved Reersø den 4.
september (måske omkring
her), og to dage
senere
blev han begravet på Reersø Kirkegård. Resten
af besætningen har ingen kendt grav." (FT
88-41-33)
Warrant Officer Washington Henry Samuel
Ansell, 32 år, var søn af Washington og Ada Ethel Ansell; gift med Doris
Edith Ansell, Clapham, London, UK.
Hans navn er på Panel 213 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne
på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde:
CWGC)
Se Lancaster fotos og
Operation 30 AUGUST 1944 - ruter og tab.
7 flyvere.
On 30 August 1944
LAN EE193 crashed into the
Kattegat, maybe 3 miles north west of
Sejerø.
See
p367MACR. (Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes:
"403 bombers from the RAF flew to Stettin
(Szczecin)
while 189 Lancasters bombed Königsberg (Kaliningrad).
38 Lancasters were lost.
At about 01.00 hours a bomber was reported shot down by a German night fighter
over the northern part of the Storebælt.
On 4 September 1944 the body of F/Sgt (Flight Engineer) Geoffrey Wilkinson Battersby
was found washed ashore at Reersø (maybe about
here).
He was buried in Reersø Churchyard two days later. The rest of the crew have no
known grave." (FT
88-41-33)
Warrant Officer Washington Henry Samuel
Ansell, 32, was the son of Washington and Ada Ethel Ansell, and the husband
of Doris Edith Ansell, of Clapham,
London, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the
Runnymede Memorial, Panel 213, among more than 20,000
airmen who have no known grave. (CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 3.
See
Operation 30 AUGUST 1944 - routes and losses *
Lancaster * Lancaster Photos.
RAF North
Killingholme at
RAF-Lincolnshire.info * RAF 550
Squadron and RAF North Killingholme Association Lancaster III EE193
BQ-C took off from
RAF North
Killingholme at 21:13 on 29 AUG 1944. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered has
this.)
See
7 airmen.
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