David A. Welch                                                                                        Updated: 07 MAY 2021

Airman: e777480.htm Surname: Welch Init: D A Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 12

P_link: p088.htm Plane: WEL W5397 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d140742 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Kl. 00.09 den 14. juli 1942 lettede WEL W5397 fra RAF Binbrook på bombetogt mod Duisburg med 2 x 1.000 pund, 2 x 500 pund og 3 x 500 pund bomber.
Flyet gik tabt over havet, formodentligt over Nordsøen. Ingen overlevende. (Kilde: p088MACR)

Pilot Officer David Arthur Welch, 21 år, var søn af  A.E. og Marie Hester Welch, Eltham Park, London, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 72 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)
Han var Pilot
WEL W5397. (Kilde: MACR)

R. F. Shorthouse blev fundet den 25. september 1942 på østre Oksby strandlen (omkring her). Han blev begravet i Oksby den 30. september 1942. (Kilde: FAF)

4 flyvere fra WEL W5397 har ingen kendt grav. 5 flyvere.

At 00.09 hrs. on 14 July 1942 WEL W5397 took off from RAF Binbrook on a bombing raid on Duisburg carrying 2 x 1,000 lb., 2 x 500 lb. and 3 x 500 lb. bombs.
It was lost at sea, North Sea presumed. (Source: p088MACR)

Pilot Officer David Arthur Welch, 21, was the son of A.E. and Marie Hester Welch, of Eltham Park, London, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 72, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
He was the Pilot of
WEL W5397. (Source: MACR)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 113.

R. F. Shorthouse was found on 25 September 1942 in beach area Oksby east (about here). He was buried in Oksby on 30 September 1942. (Source: FAF)

4 airmen from WEL W5397 have no known grave.

See No. 12 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia and  12 Squadron RAF at RAF-Lincolnshire.infoWellington (bomb bay)
Wellington  II W5397 PH- took off from RAF Binbrook at 00.09 hrs on 13 JUL 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)

5 airmen.