Richard George Oliver                                                                            Updated: 11 MAY 2021

Airman: e777538.htm Surname: Oliver Init: R G Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 15

P_link: p125.htm Plane: STI W7635 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d081242 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Den 8. december 1942 styrtede STI W7635 i Nordsøen på en minelægningsoperation til Østersøen. Se Sweetpeas i Minelægningsområder.
Hele besætningen omkom.

Sergeant Richard George Oliver, 29 år, var søn af Richard og Elizabeth Oliver; gift med Gladys Edith Oliver, Horn's Cross, Kent, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 90 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

5 flyvere fra STI W7635 har ingen kendt grav, 1 blev begravet i Esbjerg og 1 på Kirkeby Kirkegård.

7 flyvere.


On 8 December 1942 STI W7635 crashed into the North Sea on a minelaying operation to the Baltic Sea. See Sweetpeas in
Minelaying areas.
All of the crew perished.

Sergeant Richard George Oliver, 29, was the son of Richard and Elizabeth Oliver, and the husband of Gladys Edith Oliver, of Horn's Cross, Kent, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 90, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 220.

5 airmen from STI W7635 have no known grave, 1 was buried in Esbjerg and 1 in Kirkeby Churchyard.

See No. 15 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia  *  Stirling
Stirling I W7635 LS-V took off from RAF Bourn at 16.42 hours on 08 DEC 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this + Archive Report)  

7 airmen.