John R. Drake                                                                                           Updated: 10 MAY 2021

Airman: e777367.htm Surname: Drake Init: J R Rank: F/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 218

P_link: p118.htm Plane: STI W7613 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Juvre Dyb at Rømø

Crash_d: d011042 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

"På bombetogt mod Hearnwyk ved Lübeck nedstyrtede et Stirling fly i Nordsøen den 1. oktober 1942.  Alle 8 om bord omkom.
F/Lt Du Toit og Wing Commander Read blev indbragt fra Hviding (fundet måske omkring her) og begravet den 20. oktober 1942.
Sgt Parkinson inddrev ved Vejers strand (omkring her) og begravedes den 30. oktober 1942. - Den øvrige besætning har ingen kendt grav." (FAF)

Flying Officer John Randal Drake, 33 år, var søn af John Bernard Drake og Beatrice Louisa Drake, gift med Sonia Drake, Victoria, London, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 66 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

Fra STI W7613 er 3 flyvere begravet i Esbjerg og 5 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
8 flyvere.

On a bombing raid on Hearnwyk at Lübeck a Stirling crashed into the North Sea on 1 October 1942. All 8 on board perished.
F/Lt Du Toit and Wing Commander Read were taken from Hviding (found maybe about here) to Esbjerg and buried on 20 October 1942.
Sgt Parkinson drifted ashore at Vejers (about here) and was buried on 30 October 1942. - The rest of the crew have no known graves. (Source: FAF)

Flying Officer John Randal Drake, 33, was the son of John Bernard Drake and Beatrice Louisa Drake, and the husband of Sonia Drake, of Victoria, London, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 66, 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 2, Panel 157.

3 airmen from STI W7613 were buried in Esbjerg, and 5 others have no known graves.

See  No. 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron RAF * No. 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron Association * Short Stirling 
Stirling I W7613 HA-N took off from RAF Downham Market at 19.48 hours on 01 OCT 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  7 airmen.
8 airmen.