Edward Littleton Farrands Updated: 03 JAN 2022 Airman: o888157.htm Surname: Farrands Init: E L Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 44 P_link: p012.htm Plane: HAM L4087 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Tannis Bugt (Bay) Crash_d: d200740 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW
HAM L4087 blev
under en minelægningsoperation ved Frederikshavn den 20. juli 1944 ramt af flak
og styrtede ned ved Kandestederne, omkring
her. Sergeant (Pilot) Edward Littleton Farrands
fik beskadiget det ene ben, men det lykkedes ham at komme i land, hvor han gemte
sig i et sommerhus. Farrands kom også til
Stalag Luft I i Barth. Ved juletid 1941 fik
han et voldsomt tilfælde af tyfus.
During a minelaying operation at
Frederikshavn on 20 July 1944
HAM L4087 was hit by flak and crashed at Kandestederne, about
here. One of Sergeant (Pilot) Edward Littleton Farrands´
legs was
hurt, but he succeeded in getting ashore, where he hid in a summer
cottage. Farrands also came to
Stalag Luft I in Barth. By Christmas 1941
he was very ill with typhoid fever.
Hampden I L4087 KM-C
took off from
RAF Waddington
on 19 JUL 1940. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered
has
this and
Archive Report.) See p012MACR. |