Robert A. Roberts                                                                              Updated: 03 JAN 2022

Airman: e777406.htm Surname: Roberts Init: R A Rank: LAC 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.

Leading Aircraftman Robert Arthur Roberts, 24 år, var søn af Robert John og May Roberts, Barton-on-Irwell, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 24 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.

Leading Aircraftman Robert Arthur Roberts, 24, was the son of Robert John and May Roberts, of Barton-on-Irwell, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 24, 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 233.   

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.)