Alan F. Neale                                                                                           Updated: 05 JAN 2022

Airman: e777553.htm Surname: Neale Init: A F Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAAF Sqdn: 12

P_link: p132.htm Plane: LAN W4372 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d180143 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Kl. 16:34 den 17. januar 1943 lettede LAN W4372 fra RAF Wickenby på bombetogt mod Berlin. Se Lancaster fotos.
Flyet medførte en 4.000 pund bombe og brandbomber og gik tabt sammen med 3 andre fly fra denne squadron. (Kilde: MACR) (Ingen af de 3 i www.airmen.dk)

A. Mitchell blev fundet drevet ind på Søgaard Forstrand (omkring her) den 14. maj 1943. Han blev begravet i Esbjerg den 18. maj 1943. (Kilde: AOD+p132MACR)

Flight Sergeant Alan Frank Neale, 22 år, var søn af Frank og Mabel Neale; gift med Joan May Neale, Wolstanton, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 193 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

Han var Air Bomber på
LAN W4372. (Kilde: MACR)

1 flyver fra LAN W4372 blev begravet i Esbjerg. 6 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
7 flyvere.

At 16:34 on 17 January 1943 LAN W4372 took off from RAF Wickenby on a bombing raid targeting Berlin.
It carried a 4,000 lb. bomb and incendiaries and was lost with 3 other aircraft from this squadron. (None of them on www.airmen.dk)
The plane crashed in the North Sea. No survivors. (Source: MACR)

A. Mitchell was found washed ashore on Søgaard Forstrand (about here) on 14 May 1943. He was buried in Esbjerg on 18 May 1943. (Source: AOD+p132MACR)

Flight Sergeant Alan Frank Neale, 22, was the son of Frank and Mabel Neale, and the husband of Joan May Neale, of Wolstanton, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 193, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
He was the Air Bomber of LAN W4372. (Source: MACR) Virtual War Memorial Australia has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 78.  

1 airman from LAN W4372 was buried in Esbjerg. 6 airmen have no known grave.

See Lancaster * Lancaster Photos * No. 12 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia12 Squadron RAF at RAF-Lincolnshire.info * 12 Squadron - RAFA.
Lancaster I W4372 PH-G took off from RAF Wickenby at 16:34 on 17 JAN 1943. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this) 7 airmen.