William Smithson                                                                                     Updated: 06 MAR 2022

Airman: e777455.htm Surname: Smithson Init: W Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 9

P_link: p053.htm Plane: WEL X3280 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: North Sea off Holland

Crash_d: d091141 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Kl. 17.30 den 9. november 1941 lettede WEL X3280 fra RAF Honington på et bombetogt mod Hamburg (her). Det angreb målet kl. 19.52.
SOS sendt 21.09 og trukket tilbage. Sidste meddelelse fra øst for Helgoland (som er her).  Flyet styrtede ned i vadehavet ud for Vlieland, Holland (her). (Kilde: MACR)

Flight Sergeant William Smithson, 24 år, var søn af Albert og Ellen Smithson, Batley Carr, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 37 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 WEL X3280. (Kilde: MACR)

Sgt Dartnell blev fundet inddrevet den 11. december 1941, antagelig ved Søndervig (her). Begravet af pastor J. Bendsen i Lemvig den 13. december 1941. (Kilde: FAF)

1 flyver fra WEL X3280 blev begravet i Lemvig og 1 i HOLLAND. 4 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.  Wellington * p053MACR.
6 flyvere.

At 17.30 hrs. on 9 November 1941 WEL X3280 took off from RAF Honington on a bombing raid targeting Hamburg (here). It attacked the target at 19.52 hrs.
SOS sent 21.09 and cancelled. Last message from East of Heligoland (which is here). It crashed in the Waddenzee off Vlieland, Holland (here). (Source: MACR)

Flight Sergeant William Smithson, 24, was the son of Albert and Ellen Smithson, of Batley Carr, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 244. 
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 37, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
He was an Air Gunner of WEL X3280. (Source: MACR)

Sgt Dartnell was found washed ashore on 11 December 1941, presumably near Søndervig (here).
Vicar J. Bendsen officiated at the graveside ceremony in Lemvig on 13 December 1941. (Source: FAF)

1 airman from WEL X3280 was buried in Lemvig and 1 in HOLLAND. 4 airmen have no known grave.

See No. 9 Squadron RAF * IX (B) Squadron Association * Wellington * p053MACR.

Wellington III X3280 WS- took off from RAF Honington at17:30 on 09 NOV 1941. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  6 airmen.