5 November 1940 – 4/KG53 – Heinkel 111H-2, A1+KM - Oblt HH Bannert and crew - Op Bombing or Mine Laying operation.
Approximate location - In the Humber Estuary off Grimsby
Hit by anti aircraft fire and crashed into the sea near Grimsby. The Pilot, Oblt H Bannert, and Engineer, Uffz Willi Göhring, were not recovered and are listed as missing. Commemorated on the Laboe Naval Memorial at Kiel.
August Schmitz, Georg Werder and Eduard Zahn now rest the the Grimsby Scartho Cemetery.
Oblt Helmut Bannert – Pilot - 29 – Commemorated on Laboe Naval Memorial at Kiel
Uffz Willi Gohring - Commemorated on Laboe Naval Memorial at Kiel
August Schmitz – 22 – Scartho Cemetery, Grimsby
Gefr Georg Werder - 23 – Scartho Cemetery, Grimsby
Eduard Zahn - 21 – Scartho Cemetery, Grimsby
Laboe/Kiel Naval Memorial
Scartho CWGC
Georg Werder Death Card - courtesy of Werder family Find a Grave
Werder grave
Schmitz grave
Zahn grave
Bannert crew graves Scartho. Werder grave in foreground and the other two directly behind
Compiled by David Fell with photos from my own archive.
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