Eric Knight Updated: 25 MAR 2021
Airman: e777478.htm Surname: Knight Init: E Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 61
P_link: p086.htm Plane: LAN R5488 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: NW of Esbjerg
Crash_d: d040742 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
Kl.
22.25 den 3.juli 1942 lettede LAN R5488 fra
RAF Syerston på en minelægningsopgave i danske farvande. Sergeant Eric Knight, 22 år, var søn af
George og Adelina Knight, Eston, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Både J. Brown og E. C. Marshall blev fundet ved
Fjaltring Strand (omkring
her,
overblik her)
den 10. juli 1942. Begravet i Lemvig den følgende dag af pastor J. Bendsen.
At 22.25 hrs on 3 July 1942 LAN R5488
took off from
RAF Syerston on a minelaying mission to Danish waters. Sergeant Eric Knight, 22, was the son of
George and Adelina Knight, of Eston, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. On 10 July 1942 both J. Brown and E. C. Marshall
were found on Fjaltring Beach (about
here,
overview here).
See
No.
61 Squadron in Wikipedia
*
No. 50 & 61 Squadrons
Association * Lancaster photos. |