Kenneth Naylor Updated: 06 MAR 2022
Airman: e777381.htm Surname: Naylor Init: K 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 Kenneth Naylor, 21 år, var søn af Wilfrid og Harriet Naylor,
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 49 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 Kenneth Naylor, 21, was the son of Wilfrid and Harriet Naylor,
of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 217.
He is commemorated on the
Runnymede Memorial, Panel 49, 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.