Ernest Leslie Watts                                                                              Updated: 11 OCT 2021

Airman: e777353.htm Surname: Watts Init: E L Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 207

P_link: p323.htm Plane: LAN ND522 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Sea NW of Mandø

Crash_d: d220544 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Den 22. maj 1944 styrtede LAN ND522 i Vadehavet nord for Mandø - måske omkring her Se p323MACR.
J. A. Freeman blev begravet den 27. maj 1944 i Esbjerg.
4 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
2 flyvere sprang ud med faldskærm og blev taget til fange.
(Kilde: FAF) De blev ført til Tyske krigsfangelejre.

Sergeant Ernest Leslie Watts, 37 år, var søn af Frank Ernest og Florence Margaret Watts, Chiswick, Middlesex; gift med
Phyllis Josephine Watts, Chiswick, United Kingdom.

Hans navn er på Panel 240 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)


Flyet var på en minelægningoperation over området Forget-Me-Not, Kiel Havn.
Se Minelægningsområder og  Lancaster fotos.  7 flyvere.

On 22 May 1944 LAN ND522 crashed into the waters north of Mandø - maybe about here See p323MACR.
J. A. Freeman was buried in Esbjerg on 27 May 1944.
4 airmen have no known grave.
2 airmen bailed out and were taken prisoners. (Source: FAF) They
were taken to German POW-Camps.

Sergeant Ernest Leslie Watts, 37, was the son of Frank Ernest and Florence Margaret Watts, of Chiswick, Middlesex, and the husband
of Phyllis Josephine Watts, of Chiswick, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 240, 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 112.

The plane was on a minelaying operation over the area Forget-Me-Not, Kiel Harbour. See Minelaying areas.

See No. 207 Squadron - Wikipedia * 207 Squadron Association * RAF-Lincolnshire.info * Lancaster Photos.
Lancaster III ND522 EM-J took off from RAF Spilsby at 22.10 hrs on 21 MAY 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)
7 airmen.