Raymond T. Stephen                                                                             Updated: 16 MAR 2022

Airman: o888494.htm Surname: Stephen Init: R T Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 15

P_link: p067.htm Plane: STI W7514 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Near Kravlund

Crash_d: d260442 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW

Den 26. april 1942 styrtede STI W7514 ned ved Kravlund her ca. 300 m øst for Julianehåbvej 32, 6360 Tinglev på et bombetogt mod Rostock. Short Stirling.
(Det var ved Jørgen Jørgensens barndomshjem. Flyet eksploderede i luften og vragstykker blev spredt over flere hundrede meter. På positionen midt i nedstyrtnings-området blev et stykke af flykroppen med det trefarvede RAF-mærke fundet. (Kilde: Jørgen Jørgensen - webmaster på Flystyrt.)


Flyets radiotelegrafist, Sgt. East, var blevet dræbt i luften inden nedstyrtningen. Et andet besætningsmedlem, Sgt. Surridge, blev hårdt såret ført fra
en gårdejer i Pebersmark til Tønder Sygehus, hvor han døde den 28. april 1942. Begge flyvere blev begravet i Aabenraa den 2. maj 1942.
De 6 øvrige besætningsmedlemmer sprang ud med faldskærm. De blev i mere eller mindre såret tilstand via det danske politi overgivet til værnemagten. (Kilde: FAF)

De blev ført til Tyske krigsfangelejre. F/O A. B. Bateman blev interneret i 9C Bad Sulza / L3 Sagan. F/O J. E. M. Conran i L1 Barth / L3 Sagan.
Sgt R. A. J. Skinner i L3 Sagan / L6 Heydekrug / 357 Fallingbostel med Sgt R. T. Stephen. Sgt Stephen blev dræbt af lynnedslag i fangenskab den 29. juli 1944.
Sgt R. R. Lawson og P/O A. H. H.Young in Camp L3 Sagan. (Source: Lost Bombers)

Warrant Officer (Flight Engineer) Raymond Thomas Stephen, 24 år, var søn af Alfred John Watson Stephen og Mary Craighead Stephen, Ripponden,
Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Han er begravet på POZNAN OLD GARRISON CEMETERY, 6.A.6., i POLEN.
(Kilde: CWGC)

2 flyvere fra STI W7514 blev begravet i Aabenraa. 6 blev krigsfanger. 8 flyvere. 

On 26 April 1942 STI W7514 crashed at Kravlund here about 300 m east of Julianehåbvej 32, 6360 Tinglev on a bombing raid on Rostock.
(It was the childhood home of Jørgen Jørgensen. The plane exploded in the air and pieces of wreckage were scattered over several hundred metres. A big part of the fuselage with the Royal Air Force roundel was found at the position shown in the middle of the crash site area. (Source: Jørgen Jørgensen, webmaster of Flystyrt.)

Wireless Operator, Sgt East had been killed in the air before the crash.
Another crew member, Sgt Surridge, was taken, severely wounded, from a farmer's in
Pebersmark to
Tønder Hospital, where he died on 28 April 1942. Both airmen were buried in Aabenraa on 2 May 1942.
The 6 other crew members bailed out. More or less injured they were handed over to the German Wehrmacht by Danish police. (Source: FAF)

They were taken to German POW-Camps. F/O A. B. Bateman was interned in Camp 9C Bad Sulza / L3 Sagan. F/O J. E. M. Conran in Camps L1 Barth / L3 Sagan.
Sgt R. A. J. Skinner in Camps L3 Sagan / L6 Heydekrug / 357 Fallingbostel with Sgt R. T. Stephen. Sgt Stephen was killed by a lightning strike in captivity 29 July 1944. Sgt R. R. Lawson and P/O A. H. H. Young in Camp L3 Sagan. (Source: Lost Bombers)

Warrant Officer (Flight Engineer) Raymond Thomas Stephen, 24, was the son of Alfred John Watson Stephen and Mary Craighead Stephen, of Ripponden,
Yorkshire, United Kingdom. He is buried in POZNAN OLD GARRISON CEMETERY, 6.A.6., in POLEN. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 247.

2 airmen from STI W7514 were buried in Aabenraa. 6 were captured.
See No. 15 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * XV (R) Squadron * Stirling.  
Stirling I W7514 LS-B
took off from RAF Wyton at 21:50 on 25 APR 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) p067MACR has more. 8 airmen.