Den 27. september 1943 kl. 19.21 lettede
HAL LK648 fra RAF Tholthorpe
i Yorkshire på bombetogt mod
Hannover.
"Fly styrtet i Nordsøen. Ingen overlevende.
Gummibåd med ligene af F/Lt Hallas og F/Lt
Wallace samlet op 9. oktober 1943 på position
7 sømil
ØNØ for Slugen N af fiskekutter E. 425 "Chr. Muff" og taget til Esbjerg samme
dag. Skipper på E. 425: Christen Enevoldsen." (p225MACR+rapport)
Flying Officer Benjamin Stanley Jones, 25
år, var søn af Benjamin og Joan Jones, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Hans navn er på Panel 174 på the Runnymede Memorial
blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en
kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)
Han var Navigator på HAL LK648. (Kilde: MACR)
2 flyvere fra HAL LK648
blev begravet i Esbjerg og 1 i Norge. 5 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
Se
Halifax Print *
Halifax Mk III på YAM 2019 *
folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission. 8 flyvere.
On 27 September 1943 at 19.21 hrs
HAL LK648 took off from
RAF Tholthorpe in
Yorkshire on a bombing raid targeting
Hanover.
"Aircraft crashed in North Sea. No survivors. Dinghy containing the bodies of F/Lts
Hallas and Wallace picked up
on October 9 1943 in position
7 Nautical miles ENE of Slugen N by fishing vessel
E. 425 "Chr. Muff" and carried to Esbjerg same day. Skipper of E. 425: Christen
Enevoldsen." (MACR)
Flying Officer Benjamin Stanley Jones, 25,
was the son of Benjamin and Joan Jones, of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel
174, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave.
(Source: CWGC)
He was the Navigator of HAL LK648. (Source: MACR)
His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the BC
Museum of Canada.
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has
this.
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 190.
2 airmen from HAL LK648
were buried in Esbjerg and 1 in NORWAY. 5 airmen have no known grave.
See
No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons *
No. 434 (Bluenose) Squadron *
RCAF 434 Squadron 1943-1945
*
No. 434 Squadron
RCAF in Wikipedia.
Halifax-Wikipedia*Halifax Print*Halifax-BC
Museum.Canada *
Halifax-RAF Museum *
Halifax-The Yorkshire Air
Museum * Halifax Mk III
at YAM 2019*LAN-HAL.
Halifax V LK648 IP-F took off from
RAF Tholthorpe at
19.21 hrs on 27 SEP 1943. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered has
this.)
See p225MACR+report
8 airmen.
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