tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273873140463924284.post4145339491323801584..comments2024-02-20T09:19:59.156+01:00Comments on Trikes and (odd) bikes.: 19th November 2011Chris.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13986753919505764942noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273873140463924284.post-84577594602343376662011-11-24T13:55:52.546+01:002011-11-24T13:55:52.546+01:00Hi Alan
Many thanks for filling in the missing d...Hi Alan<br /><br />Many thanks for filling in the missing details. By coincidence I have just found another memorial stone at Gamtofte. Complete with a prop blade standing alongside. The stone was lost behind some shrubbery which has just been cleared.(opposite the church)<br /><br />Best regards<br />ChrisChris.Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13986753919505764942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273873140463924284.post-32091711302302781612011-11-19T21:44:37.282+01:002011-11-19T21:44:37.282+01:00Just for interest's sake, the names missing fr...Just for interest's sake, the names missing from the memorial are F/Lt John Morgan RCAF (Pilot); F/O Jacques Clerc RCAF (Bomb Aimer); F/Sgt John Moffat RCAF (Air Gunner); Sgt Robert Young RAF (Flight Engineer) and P/O Courtney Steward RCAF (Wireless Op). They are all buried in Sønderby cemetary, nearby.<br />As it happens, the memorial stone also gives an incorrect date, the aircraft was shot down on 16th August 1944 rather than the 14th inscribed on the stone.<br />The aircraft was a Halifax MkIII belonging to 433 Sqdn RCAF and operating from Skipton on Swale. It was on a mission to drop mines in Kiel Bay but was intercepted on it's outward trip by a German night fighter flown by Oberleutenant Herbert Koch. His attack caused the Halifax to burst into flames and explode in mid air. Danish civilians later heard cries for help coming from the sea and launched a boat which rescued the Navigator and an Air Gunner who were relatively unhurt and spent the remainder of the war as prisoners of war. The bodies of Morgan, Young, Clerc and Moffat were washed up on the beach the following day. The body of Steward was found tangled in wreckage a week later. I hope that might be of some interest.<br />AlanAlanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12082536364986473710noreply@blogger.com