Hampden I AD727 - Kiel Bay off Buelk Updated: 08 NOV 2011
Airman | Surname | Init | Rank | Service | Sqdn | P_link | Plane | Operation | Crash_site | Crash_d | Buried_d | C_link | At_Next |
e444029.htm | Bestwick | J | Sgt | RAF | 61 | p030.htm | HAM AD727 | Minelaying | Kiel Bay off Buelk | d110641 | e444 | e444.htm | GERMANY |
e777429.htm | Breene | P J | F/Sgt | RAF | 61 | p030.htm | HAM AD727 | Minelaying | Kiel Bay off Buelk | d110641 | e777 | e777.htm | NO KNOWN |
e777428.htm | Caunter-Jackson | F A | P/O | RAF | 61 | p030.htm | HAM AD727 | Minelaying | Kiel Bay off Buelk | d110641 | e777 | e777.htm | NO KNOWN |
a042001.htm | Pritchard | PHH | F/O | RAF | 61 | p030.htm | HAM AD727 | Minelaying | Kiel Bay off Buelk | d110641 | b150841 | c042.htm | Kappel |
Den 11. juni 1941 blev
HAM AD727 skudt ned af tysk marineflak (omkring
her) nær Buelk ved Kiel under en minelægningsoperation.
Se Minelægningsområder.
Dette fly var det
eneste af de 20 Hampdens fra RAF, der gik tabt.
Flying Officer (Pilot) Peter Harold Howard Pritchard blev den 12. august 1941
fundet ilanddrevet ved Maglehøj Strand (omkring
her).
Han blev begravet 15. august 1941 på Kappel Kirkegård under udfoldelse
af al den honnør, som tyskerne på det tidspunkt endnu gav faldne
modstandere.
Den tyske feltpræst Graef foretog begravelsen. Højtideligheden sluttede med at
en tysk deling skød æressalut over
graven, hvor der senere blev anbragt et kors
med inskriptionen "Hier ruht der englische Flieger Pritchard", se
foto. (Kilder: FAF og FT-86-87-1)
Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) John Bestwick blev begravet i
Tyskland.
Pilot Officer Frederick Arthur Caunter-Jackson og Flight Sergeant Patrick Joseph
Breene har ingen kendt grav.
1 flyver fra HAM AD727 blev begravet i Kappel, Danmark, 1 i Kiel, Tyskland og 2 har ingen kendt grav. 4 flyvere.
On 11 June 1941
HAM AD727 was shot down by German flak (about
here) near Buelk at Kiel on a minelaying operation.
See
Minelaying areas
This plane was the only
one of the 20
Hampdens from the RAF, which was lost.
On 12 August 1941 the body of
Flying Officer (Pilot) Peter Harold Howard Pritchard was found washed ashore on
Maglehøj Strand (about
here).
He was buried on 15 August 1941 with all the military honours, which
the German still at that time showed their fallen adversaries.
The German
chaplain Graef officiated at the graveside. At the end of the ceremony a German
platoon fired a salute of honour over the grave.
Later the Germans placed a
cross on the grave with the inscription "Hier ruht der englische Flieger
Pritchard", see photo.
(Sources: FAF and FT-86-87-1)
Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) John Bestwick was buried in Germany.
Pilot Officer Frederick Arthur Caunter-Jackson and Flight Sergeant Patrick
Joseph Breene have no known graves.
1 airman from
HAM AD727 was buried in Kappel, Denmark, 1 in Kiel,
Germany, and 2 have no known graves.
This Hampden
belonged to No. 61
Squadron RAF. See
Bomber
Command No. 61 Squadron and
61 Squadron
at RAF-Lincolnshire-info.
It took off from RAF Hemswell.
See the RAF Hemswell Association
and The
Wartime Memories Project - RAF Hemswell. 4 airmen.