Ernest William Parker                                                                            Updated:  15 OCT 2021

Airman: e777272.htm Surname: Parker Init: E W Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 550

P_link: p367.htm Plane: LAN EE193 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The Kattegat

Crash_d: d300844 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

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)

Sergeant Ernest William Parker, 19 år, var søn af Harry E. R. og Gladys I. Parker, Romford, Essex, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 235 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)

Sergeant Ernest William Parker, 19, was the son of Harry E. R. and Gladys I. Parker, of Romford, Essex, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 235, 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 82. 

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.