Crash Site Vickers Wellington Mk.Ic X9667

The Vickers Wellington took off at 6.30pm on 26 January 1943 from Moreton-in-Marsh airfield, England for a training mission with practice bombs. The crew did not belong to a squadron, but to an Operational Training Unit. The planned route was up to 50 miles off the English coast. The crew probably became disoriented over the North Sea. Off Texel, the plane was shot down by German pilot Leutnant W. Kuthe and came down in the Wadden Sea.

Two months later, crew members Ellis and Smith washed up on Texel. Near den Helder, the same happened to Mitchell, Llewelyn and Elvin. Navigator Tucker was apparently not recovered from the wreckage until after the war in the summer of 1945. He was buried in Westerland cemetery. The sole survivor Morgan was wounded and was nursed at the Wilhelminagasthuis in Amsterdam until February 1943.

The crew consisted of:
Gordon George Ellis, Pilot, aged 20, United Kingdom, buried Municipal Cemetery Den Burg, Texel
Frank Howard Mitchell, Second pilot, 28 years, Australia, buried Den Burg Municipal Cemetery, Texel
Eric Hector Tucker, Navigator, 20 years, United Kingdom, buried at Protestant Cemetery, Westerland
Dilwyn Llewelyn, Bomber, aged 22, United Kingdom, buried at Bergen op Zoom War Cemetery
John Newell Morgan, Radio Operator, aged 22, United Kingdom, wounded and survived
Ronald Edward Elvin, Air gunner, aged 20, United Kingdom, buried in Bergen op Zoom War Cemetery
Norman George Smith, Tail Gunner, aged 21, Australia, Den Burg Municipal Cemetery, Texel

The commemorative pole was placed in 2019 by the Stichting Herdenkingspalen Hollands Kroon (Hollands Kroon Commemorative Poles Foundation

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• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Stichting Herdenkingspalen Hollands Kroon
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