Donald E. Williams                                                                                  Updated: 06 MAR 2022

Airman: e777380.htm Surname: Williams Init: D E Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 101

P_link: p055.htm Plane: WEL R1778 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d301141 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

WEL R1778 havde motorproblemer på vej til at bombe Hamburg, så flyet styrtede i Nordsøen omkring her kl. 20:00 den 30. november 1941.
Se mange detaljer i p055MACR. Dette er en af beretningerne om flyvere Reddet af fiskere i Nordsøen.

Sergeant (Co-Pilot) Roy St. C. Finch og Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) John W. Lamont kom i gummibåden, der blev fundet
den 2. december 1941 kl. 10:00 af den danske fiskekutter E 264 »Harmoni« af Esbjerg. Ved ankomsten til Esbjerg blev de taget til fange
af tyskerne. De lærte en del tyske krigsfangelejre at kende.

Sergeant (Pilot) Derek A. Willisson, Sergeant (Observer) Donald E. Williams, Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Kenneth Naylor
og Sergeant (Air Gunner) Leonard G. C. Dimond omkom og forsvandt i havet. (Kilder: AOD og Lost Bombers)

Sergeant Donald Ernest Williams, 22, was the son of Ernest and Margaret Eleanor Williams, of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 54 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC) 6 flyvere.

On 30 November 1941 at 20:00 WEL R1778 crashed in the North Sea about here due to engine trouble on its way to bomb Hamburg.
See many details in p055MACR. This is one of the stories about airmen Rescued by fishermen in the North Sea.

Sergeant (Co-Pilot) Roy St. C. Finch and Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) John W. Lamont got into the dinghy, which was found
on 2 December 1941 at 10:00 by the Danish fishing cutter E 264 »Harmoni« of Esbjerg. On the arrival at Esbjerg they were captured by the
Germans. They got to know a number of German POW Camps.

Sergeant (Pilot) Derek A. Willisson, Sergeant (Observer) Donald E. Williams, Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Kenneth Naylor
and Sergeant (Air Gunner) Leonard G. C. Dimond perished and disappeared in the sea. (Sources: AOD and Lost Bombers)

Sergeant Donald Ernest Williams, 22, was the son of Ernest and Margaret Eleanor Williams, of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 265. 
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 54, among more than 20,000 airmen, who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)

See No. 101 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * 101 Squadron RAF * 101 Squadron Association * No. 101 Squadron (RAF): Second World War *  Wellington.
Wellington Ic R1778 SR-G took off from RAF Oakington app. at16:40 on 30 APR 1941. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  6 airmen.