Robert James Jennings                                                                      Updated: 23 JAN 2023

Airman: e777830.htm Surname: Jennings Init: R J Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 049

P_link: p465.htm Plane: HAM P4377 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: The Kattegat

Crash_d: d070840 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Sergeant Robert James Jennings, 24 år, var søn af Robert og Elizabeth Jennings, Shoreditch, London, United Kingdom. Hæderstegn: DFM, Distinguished Flying Medal. Hans navn er på Panel 16 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

Den 7. august 1940 styrtede HAM P4377 i Kattegat, omkring her. Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver:
"6.-7. august 1940 (kl 01.15). Kattegat, mellem Skagen og Frederikshavn. Hampden, Mk. 1, P4377 (EA- ).
49 BS, 5 BG, Scampton, Lincs. (Minering: »Undergrowth« ved Frederikshavn). 4 MIA.
(Se Minelægningsområder)

12 Hampdens minerede ved Frederiksstad i Norge og Frederikshavn. Kl. 21.00 lettede P4377, og derefter hørte man intet fra flyet. De tyske flakbatterier ved
Skagen og Frederikshavn beskød allierede fly i tidsrummet 01.00-01.30. Kl. 01.15 styrtede et brændende fly i Kattegat mellem Skagen og Frederikshavn.
Da P4377 var nattens eneste tab, må det derfor være Sgt R. J. Jennings (DFM) og hans tre besætningsmedlemmer, der således forsvandt." (FT 89-34-6)

Foto af en Hampden

4 flyvere.

Sergeant Robert James Jennings, 24, was the son of Robert and Elizabeth Jennings, of Shoreditch, London, United Kingdom. Awards: DFM, the Distinguished Flying Medal. He is commemorated on the  Runnymede Memorial, Panel 16, 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 1, Panel 55.       

On 7 August 1940 HAM P4377 crashed into the Kattegat, about here. (Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes:
"6 - 7 August 1940 (01:15). The Kattegat, between Skagen and Frederikshavn. Hampden, Mk. 1, P4377 (EA- ).
49 BS, 5 BG, Scampton, Lincs. (Minelaying: »Undergrowth« at Frederikshavn). 4 MIA.
(See Minelaying areas)

12 Hampdens laid mines at Frederikstad in Norway and Frederikshavn. P4377 took off at 21:00 and after that nothing was heard from the plane.
The German flak batteries at Skagen and Frederikshavn fired at allied planes in the time span 01:00-01:30. At 01:15 a plane crashed, burning,
into the Kattegat between Skagen and Frederikshavn. As P4377 was the only loss that night, it must have been Sgt R. J. Jennings (DFM) and his 3 crew
members who then disappeared." (FT 89-34-6)

See 49 Squadron Association * RAF-Lincolnshire - 49 Sqn * Photo of a Hampden
Hampden I P4377 EA-K took off from RAF Scampton on 06 AUG 1940. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)

4 airmen.