RAF 105 Squadron graves Bergen 1941

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  1. brithm

    brithm Senior Member

    Photograph of two 105 Squadron crewmans' graves. It shows P/O. Richard Alban Richards (pilot) and Sgt. Arthur Charles North (observer) graves at Mollendal Church Cemetery, Bergen, Norway.

    16th May 1941 eight Blenheims on an anti-shipping sweep in Norway managed to sink a supply ship, Richards was flying Blenheim IV T2118:E which was shot down into a fjord by flak at Bergen. The third crewman Sgt. Ernest Edmund Farrow Snutch (WOp/Ag) has no known grave and is on the Runnymede Memorial.

    Richards was aged 22, North also 22 and Snutch 26.

    Blenheim IV
    T2118:E
    Pilot: P/O. R.A. Richards, (60819)
    Observer: Sgt. A.C. North, (965820)
    W/OpAG: Sgt. E.E.F. Snutch, (751069)
     

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