Wilbert Priestley Updated: 03 JAN 2022
Airman: e777405.htm Surname: Priestley Init: W Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 110
P_link: p006.htm Plane: BLE N6214 Operation: Not DK/G Crash_site: North Sea off Norway
Crash_d: d250440 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
Den 25. april 1940 styrtede
BLE N6214 i Nordsøen. Hele besætningen omkom.
p006MACR nævner
Granvin Fjord ved
Hardangerfjord i
Norge som mål.
Sergeant Wilbert Priestley, 26 år, var søn
af Herbert og Edith Priestley, Luddenden Foot, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 18 på the Runnymede Memorial
blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en
kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)
Den 23. august 1940 blev liget af W. T. Howells fundet drevet ind omkring
her ca. 1
km syd for
Thorsminde ved
Nissum
Fjord.
Han blev begravet den 25. august 1940 i Sønder Nissum af sognepræst K. L.
Aastrup. (Kilde: FAF)
1 flyver fra
BLE N6214 blev begravet i Sønder Nissum. 2 flyvere har
ingen kendt grav. 3 flyvere.
On 25 April 1940
BLE N6214 crashed into the North Sea. All of the crew
perished.
p006MACR mentions the target as
Granvin Fjord at
Hardangerfjord in
Norway.
Sergeant Wilbert Priestley, 26, was the
son of Herbert and Edith Priestley, of Luddenden Foot, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel
18, 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 228.
On 23 August 1940 the body of W. T. Howells was found washed ashore about
here
about 1 km south of
Thorsminde at
Nissum
Fjord.
On 25 August 1940 he was buried in Sønder Nissum Churchyard by Vicar K. L.
Aastrup. (Source: FAF)
1 airman from BLE N6214 was buried in Sønder Nissum Churchyard. 2 airmen have no known grave.
See
Blenheim *
No. 110 Squadrdron
RAF - Wikipedia
Blenheim IV N6214 VE-
took off from
RAF Lossiemouth on 25
APR 1940 on a Reconnaisance mission to Norway. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered
has
this.)