Kennedy Charles Walton                                                                   Updated: 05 MAR 2022

Airman: e777423.htm Surname: Walton Init: K C Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 18

P_link: p027.htm Plane: BLE T1829 Operation: Anti ship Crash_site: Off Westerland, Sylt

Crash_d: d110441 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Den 11. april 1941 styrtede BLE T1829 i Nordsøen ved øen Sild. Hele besætningen omkom.
"T1829 blev sidst set over øen Amrum, da den fløj mod nord mod Sild, hvorfra man mente at have set salver fra antiluftskyts.
Målet ikke ramt i tågen af nogle fly. Amrum bombet." Kilde: p027MACR.

Flight Sergeant Kennedy Charles Walton, 20 år, var søn af Alexander Kennedy Walton og Violet Walton, Dartington, Devon, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 38 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

Flyets pilot H. P. G. Jones blev fundet den 8. august 1941 i Jens Dahls strandlen, Sdr. Nissum sogn (omkring her).
Han blev begravet i Sdr. Nissum den 12. august 1941 ved sognepræst Jensen, Staby.

De 2 andre flyvere forsvandt i havet. (Kilde: FAF) 3 flyvere.

On 11 April 1941 BLE T1829 crashed into the North Sea off the island of Sylt. All of the crew perished.
"T1829 was last seen over Island of Amrum flying north towards Sylt from which A.A. bursts were thought to have been seen.
Target missed in fog by some aircraft. Amrum bombed." Source: p027MACR.

Flight Sergeant Kennedy Charles Walton, 20, was the son of Alexander Kennedy Walton and Violet Walton, of Dartington, Devon, United Kingdom.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 259.      
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 38, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)

On 8 August 1941 Pilot H. P. G. Jones was found washed ashore in Jens Dahl's beach area in the parish of Sønder Nissum (about here).
On 12 August 1941 he was buried in Sønder Nissum. Vicar Jensen of Staby officiated at the graveside ceremony.

The 2 other airmen disappeared into the sea. (Source: FAF) See No. 18 Squadron RAF * p027MACR

Blenheim IV T1829 WV-P took off from RAF Oulton at 10:50 on 11 APR 1941. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) Bristol Blenheim
3 airmen.