Garnet Floyd Smith                                                                              Updated: 09 MAY 2021

Airman: e777338.htm Surname: Smith Init: G F Rank: Sgt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 149

P_link: p096.htm Plane: STI R9162 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: The Skagerrak

Crash_d: d110842 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Den 11. august 1942 styrtede STI R9162 i Skagerrak under en minelægningsoperation (måske omkring her - Kilde: AOD). Hele besætningen omkom.
Sgt James Henry Storey blev fundet som lig på havet 4 km fra Hjardemål Klit (omkring her). Hans navn stod skrevet i den redningskrans, man fandt ham i.
Han blev begravet i Frederikshavn den 17. september 1942.
F/Sgt C. W. S. Oliver blev begravet i Larvik i Norge, mens Sgt L. R. Sims blev begravet på Kviberg Kirkegård ved Gøteborg i Sverige.
4 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. (Kilde: FAF)

Flight Sergeant Garnet Floyd Smith, 21 år, var søn af Robert og Nellie B. Smith, Finch, Ontario, Canada.
Hans navn er på Panel 106 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

Se p096MACR og Minelægningsområder. 7 flyvere. 

On 11 August 1942 STI R9162 crashed in the Skagerrak on a minelaying operation (maybe about here - Source: AOD). All of the crew perished.
The body of Sgt J. H. Storey was found at sea 4 km off Hjardemål Klit (about here). He was found in a lifebuoy with his name on. He was buried in
Frederikshavn on 17 September 1942.
F/Sgt C. W. S. Oliver was buried in Larvik in Norway, while Sgt L. R. Sims was buried in Kviberg Cemetery at Gothenburg in Sweden.
4 airmen have no known grave. (Source: FAF)

Flight Sergeant Garnet Floyd Smith, 21, was the son of Robert and Nellie B. Smith, of Finch, Ontario, Canada.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 106, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the BC Museum of Canada. The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 243.

No. 149 Squadron RAF * Stirling
Stirling I R9162 OJ-Q took off from RAF Mildenhall on 11 AUG 1942 targeting Silverthorn, Kattegat. Lost at sea. (Source: p096MACR) See map of Minelaying areas.
Stirling I R9162 OJ-Q took off from RAF Lakenheath on 10 AUG 1942 targeting Silverthorn, Kattegat. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)
7 airmen.