Wellington IC R1588 - The North Sea                                                 Updated: 07 MAY 2021

Airman Surname Init Rank Service Sqdn P_link Plane Operation Crash_site Crash_d Buried_d C_link At_Next
e777515.htm de Nevers F H P/O RCAF 999 p106.htm WEL R1588 Bomb G The North Sea d140942 e777 e777.htm NO KNOWN
a045010.htm Galipeau R H F/Sgt RCAF 999 p106.htm WEL R1588 Bomb G The North Sea d140942 b201042 c045.htm Kirkeby
e777516.htm Hill R G Sgt RCAF 999 p106.htm WEL R1588 Bomb G The North Sea d140942 e777 e777.htm NO KNOWN
e777518.htm MacArthur H F Sgt RCAF 999 p106.htm WEL R1588 Bomb G The North Sea d140942 e777 e777.htm NO KNOWN
e777517.htm Sutherland P F/Sgt RCAF 999 p106.htm WEL R1588 Bomb G The North Sea d140942 e777 e777.htm NO KNOWN


Den 14. september 1942 må WEL R1588 være styrtet i Nordsøen under et bombetogt til Bremen. Hele besætningen omkom. Se p106MACR.

Den 16. oktober 1942 blev F/Sgt R. H. Galipeau fundet drevet ind nær Lakolk på Rømø, måske omkring her.
Han blev begravet på Kirkeby Kirkegård den 20. oktober 1942.

4 flyvere fra WEL R1588 har ingen kendt grav. (Kilder: FAF og AOD)    p106MACR

999 Squadron? RAF 22 OTU! (Operational Training Unit - en enhed til operativ træning) Denne Wellington startede fra RAF Stratford.
5 flyvere.


 On 14 September 1942 WEL R1588 must have crashed into the North Sea on a bombing raid on Bremen. All of the crew perished. See p106MACR.

On 16 October 1942 F/Sgt R. H. Galipeau was found drifted ashore near Lakolk on Rømø, maybe about here.
He was buried in Kirkeby Churchyard on 20 October 1942.

From WEL R1588 4 airmen have no known grave. (Sources: FAF and AOD)

999 Squadron?  RAF 22 OTU! (Operational Training Unit)  See List of OTUs.   Wellington
Wellington IC R1588 DD- took off from RAF Stratford at 23.27 hrs on 13 SEP 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)
5 airmen.