Leslie Thomas Scarfe                                                                            Updated: 23 JAN 2023

Airman: e777790.htm Surname: Scarfe Init: L T Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 075

P_link: p459.htm Plane: STI W7513 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: SW of Lolland

Crash_d: d280443 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Sergeant Leslie Thomas Scarfe, 21 år, var søn af Edward Tevelin Scarfe og Sarah Grace Scarfe, Hornsey, Middlesex, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 164 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

Den 29. april 1943 styrtede STI W7513 i havet omkring her nær Vesternæs. Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver:

"28.-29. april 1943 (kl. 0035) Langelands Bælt nær Vesternæs.  Stirling Mk I W7513 (AA-G)
75 BS, 3 BG, Newmarket, Suffolk.
(Minering: Vestlige del af Fehmarn Bælt (omkring her)
) 7 MIA.

Muligvis skudt ned i området, men ingen spor efter fly eller besætning." (FT 86-88-9) Se Minelægningsområder.

Sergeant Leslie Thomas Scarfe, 21, was the son of Edward Tevelin Scarfe and Sarah Grace Scarfe, of Hornsey, Middlesex, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 164, 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  238.  

On 29 April 1943 STI W7513 crashed into the sea about here near Vesternæs. (Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes:

"28 - 29 april 1943 (00:35) The Langelands Bælt near Vesternæs.  Stirling Mk I W7513 (AA-G)
75 BS, 3 BG, Newmarket, Suffolk.
(Minelaying: The western part of the Fehmarn Belt (about here))
7 MIA.

Possibly shot down in the area, but the plane and the crew disappeared without a trace." (FT 86-88-9) See Minelaying areas.
15 of the 207 bombers were lost over Danish territory, see Google Map p169+MINELAYING. Only 4 airmen from the 23 lost planes survived!

See No. 75 Squadron RNZAF. 75 Squadron Association NZ + UK.
Stirling I W7513 AA-G took off from RAF Newmarket at 20:42 on 28 APR 1943. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this+Archive Report.) 

75(nz)squadron has more, also 75(NZ) Squadron RAF Records from April 1943, find entry of 28.4.1943,
and see that this plane with Captain Halliburton failed to return. Google Map planesRNZAF   7 airmen.