Roland Felix Lyster  Updated: 12 MAY 2022 Photo:From Andy Kennedy via Peter Gulliver                        Sgt R.F. Lyster

Airman: e777319.htm Surname: Lyster Init: R F Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 51

P_link: p152.htm Plane: HAL DT628 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site:  Lost without trace

Crash_d: d210443 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

  Nyt 05 DEC 2011: Det var IKKE en Halifax, der styrtede ved Halskov, men Lancaster X!
Se fotos Merlin! Lancaster X og Press + Halskov Halifax/Lancaster.
HAL DT628 startede fra RAF Snaith den 20. april 1943 kl. 21.23 for at bombe Stettin.
Flyet vendte ikke tilbage! Det forsvandt sporløst.

Sergeant Roland Felix Lyster var Navigator på HAL DT628. (Kilde: Neil Smith, 51 History Society.)
Se fotos af officielle dokumenter og mindetavle på siden Roland F. Lyster remembered og se rekrutter.
Sergeant Roland Felix Lyster, 20 år, var søn af John og Ellen Lyster, Dublin, Irland.
Se hans navn. Det er på Panel 157 på Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på 
flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC) Som alle andre besætningsmedlemmer var han frivillig.

Se Operationer for Bretts besætning * Besætningen * Sgt Peter Shortland's logbog
Stettin + Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943 * Google Map 51 Squadron.
Se Halifax Print og folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission. 8 flyvere.

Breaking news 05 DEC 2011: It was NOT a Halifax, but Lancaster X!
See photos Merlin! Lancaster X and Press + Halskov Halifax/Lancaster.
HAL DT628 took off from RAF Snaith on 20 April 1943 at 21.23 hours to bomb Stettin.
The plane failed to return! It disappeared without trace.

Sergeant Roland Felix Lyster was the Navigator of HAL DT628.
(Source: Neil Smith, 51 History Society,  51 Squadron.)
See photos of official documents and a memorial plaque on the page Roland F. Lyster remembered and see recruits.
Sergeant Roland Felix Lyster, 20, was the son of John and Ellen Lyster, of Dublin, Republic of Ireland. Like all other crew members he was a volunteer.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 202.   
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 157, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC) See his name.

Halifax II DT628 MH-B took off from RAF Snaith at 21.23 hrs on 20 APR 1943. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)
Operations of Brett's crew * Crew Sheet * Sgt Peter Shortland's log book * Stettin + Rostock 20 - 21 April 1943 * Google Map 51 Squadron.
Halifax * Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum * Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum. See Halifax Print and Halifax - Bless 'Em All. 8 airmen.