G. E. R. Latimer Updated: 07 NOV 2012
Airman: e777452.htm Surname: Latimer Init: GER Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 235
P_link: p044.htm Plane: BLE T1807 Operation: Patrol Crash_site: The North Sea
Crash_d: d081141 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
Den 8. november 1941 styrtede BLE T1807 i Nordsøen under
eskorteflyvning for 3 flyvebåde og u-båden HMS Rubis på eftersøgning.
Flyet forlod RAF Dyce kl. 07.25 den 8. november 1941. Det ramte vandet kl. 11.17
og sank. Hele besætningen omkom.
Liget af Sgt Leake drev ind nær Hirtshals (omkring
her).
(Kilde: MACR)
Sergeant George Edward Reid Latimer, 24
år, var myndling af Joan Mackintosh, Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 47 på the Runnymede Memorial
blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en
kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)
Han var Air Gunner
på
BLE T1807. (Kilde: MACR)
3 flyvere.
On 8 November 1941 crashed into the North
Sea. It escorted 3 flying boats and HMS Rubis (submarine) on search.
The plane left RAF Dyce at 0725 hours on 8 November 1941. It hit the water at
1117 hours and sank. All of the crew perished.
The body of Sgt Leake drifted ashore near Hirtshals (about
here.) (Source:
MACR)
Sergeant George Edward Reid Latimer, 24,
was the ward of of Joan Mackintosh, of Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel
47, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave.
(Source: CWGC)
He was the Air Gunner of BLE T1807. (Source: MACR)
See
No. 235 Squadron RAF.
This Blenheim from
RAF Coastal Command
took off from
RAF Dyce - now Aberdeen Airport.
3 airmen.