Islwyn D. Scourfield Updated: 06 MAR 2022
Airman: e777432.htm Surname: Scourfield Init: I D Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 139
P_link: p033.htm Plane: BLE T1832 Operation: Anti ship Crash_site: North Sea off Texel
Crash_d: d160641 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
Kl. 15.21 den 16. juni 1941 lettede
BLE T1832 fra RAF Horsham St. Faith på patrulje mod
skibe. Flyet blev angrebet af fjendtlige jagere og styrtede i havet.
En eftersøgning blev iværksat, men flyet blev ikke fundet. Styrtet i Nordsøen.
Ingen overlevende. (Kilde: MACR)
Sergeant Islwyn Davey Scourfield var fra Royal Air Force.
Hans navn er
på Panel 51 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere
end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav.
(Kilde: CWGC)
Han var Air Observer på
BLE T1832. (Kilde: MACR)
Telegrafist H. Gretton drev i land ved Skallingen Ende (omkring
her). Han
blev begravet i Esbjerg den 18. august 1941.
De 2 øvrige besætningsmedlemmer forsvandt i havet. (Kilde: FAF)
Bombeflyet Bristol
Blenheim. 3 flyvere.
At 15.21 hrs. on 16 june 1941
BLE T1832 took off from RAF Horsham St. Faith on an
Anti-shipping patrol to Beat No. 9.
The plane was attacked by enemy fighters and crashed in the sea. Search sent out
but failed to find. Crashed in the North Sea. No survivors. (Source:p033MACR)
Sergeant Islwyn Davey Scourfield was from the Royal Air Force.
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 239.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel
51, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave.
(Source: CWGC)
He was the Air Observer of
BLE T1832. (Source: MACR)
Wireless Operator H. Gretton was washed ashore at Skallingen Ende (about
here). He
was buried in Esbjerg on 18 August 1941.
The 2 other crew members disappeared into the sea. (Source: FAF)
No. 139 Squadron RAF * Bristol Blenheim
Blenheim IV T1832 XD- took off from RAF Horsham St. Faith at 15:21 on 16 JUN 1941. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 3 airmen.