Trevor Paul Walton                                                                               Updated:  24 NOV 2021

Airman: e777845.htm Surname: Walton Init: T P Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAAF Sqdn: 149

P_link: p467.htm Plane: STI EJ106 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: The Skagerrak

Crash_d: d081043 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Flight Sergeant Trevor Paul Walton, 22 år, var søn af pastor Horace Clarence George Walton og Elsie Eva Walton, Lockhart, New South Wales, Australia.
Hans navn er på Panel 194 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

Den 8. oktober 1943 styrtede STI EJ106 i Skagerrak vest for Løkken, måske omkring her. Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift skriver:
7.-8. oktober 1943 (kl. 00.15). Jammerbugten. Stirling Mk. IH, EJ106 (OJ-O). 149 BS, 3 BG, Lakenheath, Suffolk.
Minering: »Silverthorn 12«, syd for Læsø (omkring her). 7 MIA.

Medens 343 bombefly fløj til Stuttgart, minerede 79 bombefly fra Brest til Skagen. Fra mineringsstyrken gik tre Stirlings tabt. To i nærheden af de
frisiske øer (her), og en på vej til Kattegat. Lidt over midnat blev et brændende fly rapporteret nedstyrtet V for Løkken (
måske omkring her). Umiddelbart efter nedstyrtningen blev nogle signalraketter observeret, og redningsbåden fra Løkken (her) stod ud. Efter 12 timers eftersøgning vendte båden tilbage uden resultat.
Man har ikke siden fundet spor efter EJ 106 og de syv besætningsmedlemmer." (FT 89-70-29) 7 flyvere. Se Minelægningsområder.

Flight Sergeant Trevor Paul Walton, 22, was the son of the Revd. Horace Clarence George Walton and Elsie Eva Walton, of Lockhart, New South Wales, Australia. He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 194, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
Virtual War Memorial Australia has this. He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 259.   

On 8 October 1943 STI EJ106 crashed into the Skagerrak west of Løkken, maybe about here. (Danish) Aviation Historical Review writes:
"7 - 8 October 1943 (00:15). Jammerbugten. Stirling Mk. IH, EJ106 (OJ-O). 149 BS, 3 BG, Lakenheath, Suffolk.
Minelaying: »Silverthorn 12«, south of Læsø (about here). 7 MIA.

While 343 bombers flew to Stuttgart, 79 bombers laid mines from Brest to Skagen. 3 Stirlings were lost from the minelaying formation. 2 near
the Frisian Islands (here) and 1 on its way to the Kattegat. Shortly after midnight a burning plane was reported to have crashed west of Løkken (
maybe about here).
Some signal rockets were seen right after the crash, and the lifeboat from Løkken sailed out. After a search of 12 hours the boat returned without any result.
No trace has ever since been found of EJ 106 and the 7 crew members." (FT 89-70-29) See Minelaying areas.

See No. 149 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * Stirling
Stirling III EJ106 OJ-O took off from RAF Lakenheath at 20:23 on 07 OCT 1943. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)

7 airmen.