One of four allied airmen buried in Sankt Jörgens
(S:t Jörgens) cemetery.
His gravestone carries the inscription:
180119 FLIGHT SERGEANT / T.E.P. ROSENTHAL / PILOT / ROYAL AIR FORCE / 23RD APRIL 1945 / AGE 21 /
IN THE GARDEN OF MEMORIES WE MEET EVERY DAY.
OUR HEARTS HOLD YOU.
==================================
Thomas Ernest Parker Rosenthal
Aged 21
Son of Ernest and Ivy Louise Rosenthal, of Downham, Bromley, Kent.
Rank: F/Sgt
Service: RAF
Service No: 1800119
Sqdn: 058
Plane: HAL JP336
Operation: Anti ship
Crash_site: The Kattegat
Crash_date: d240445
HAL JP336 had to ditch in the Kattegat on 24 April 1945.
"F/O Lawrence Barclay Davey took off from Stornoway in HAL JP336 on 23 April 1945 at 20:15. At midnight the plane spotted a German convoy from Norway, and the plane was heavily damaged by flak during the first attack. Davey tried to reach land, but the plane had to ditch about 1 nautical mile northeast of Gjerrild in Djursland. It floated, burning, for half an hour. The fire was seen from land, but nobody sailed out to their rescue.
When F/O Davey got off the plane, he heard Co-Pilot F/Sgt Thomas Ernest Parker Rosenthal shouting for help from within the burning plane. Davey crawled into the wreck and helped Rosenthal out. The Wireless Operators F/O John Vilhjalmur Johnson and Sgt Gerard Anthony Guinane had also come off the plane and together they inflated their dinghy and rowed around to find the other 5 crew members, but in vain.
They could see the coast of Denmark, but the wind came from the west and the current quickly took them off the coast. F/Sgt Rosenthal died in the following night, and as the dinghy leaked he had to be buried at sea. However, Rosenthal later drifted ashore at Svarthall, and he was buried in Varberg Churchyard in Sweden on 26 July 1945. After 36 hours the airmen in distress were finally spotted by a German observation post on Anholt and two Danish fishing boats "Vera" and "Hafnia" were sent out to pick up the 3 airmen. They were then taken to Anholt. Via Grenå they were transferred to Århus Municipal Hospital. In the days after the liberation they were met with great attention here."
3 airmen from HAL JP336 are buried in Odder, 1 in Sweden, 2 have no known graves and 3 were taken to German POW-Camps.
http://www.airmen.dk/e222002.htm
Find a grave memorials for the crew:
Sgt Edmund Newton Oddy - Buried in Odder
** Find A Grave Memorial# 17859181
F/O Maynard Annand Parker - Buried in Odder
**Find A Grave Memorial# 17859187
F/O Edgar Ivan Ford - Buried in Odder
**Find A Grave Memorial# 17859174
F/Sgt Thomas Ernest Parker Rosenthal - Buried in Varberg, Sweden
**Find A Grave Memorial# 10070810
Sgt George Geoffrey Cockroft - unknown grave- Runnymede Memorial
** Find A Grave Memorial# 15247999
P/O Robert Love McKinney - unknown grave- Runnymede Memorial
**Find A Grave Memorial# 15258947
F/O Lawrence Barclay Davey - POW
**Find A Grave Memorial# 144788736
Sgt Gerard Anthony Guinane - POW
**Find A Grave Memorial# 144794429
F/O John Vilhjalmur Johnson - POW
**Find A Grave Memorial# 144795091
One of four allied airmen buried in Sankt Jörgens
(S:t Jörgens) cemetery.
His gravestone carries the inscription:
180119 FLIGHT SERGEANT / T.E.P. ROSENTHAL / PILOT / ROYAL AIR FORCE / 23RD APRIL 1945 / AGE 21 /
IN THE GARDEN OF MEMORIES WE MEET EVERY DAY.
OUR HEARTS HOLD YOU.
==================================
Thomas Ernest Parker Rosenthal
Aged 21
Son of Ernest and Ivy Louise Rosenthal, of Downham, Bromley, Kent.
Rank: F/Sgt
Service: RAF
Service No: 1800119
Sqdn: 058
Plane: HAL JP336
Operation: Anti ship
Crash_site: The Kattegat
Crash_date: d240445
HAL JP336 had to ditch in the Kattegat on 24 April 1945.
"F/O Lawrence Barclay Davey took off from Stornoway in HAL JP336 on 23 April 1945 at 20:15. At midnight the plane spotted a German convoy from Norway, and the plane was heavily damaged by flak during the first attack. Davey tried to reach land, but the plane had to ditch about 1 nautical mile northeast of Gjerrild in Djursland. It floated, burning, for half an hour. The fire was seen from land, but nobody sailed out to their rescue.
When F/O Davey got off the plane, he heard Co-Pilot F/Sgt Thomas Ernest Parker Rosenthal shouting for help from within the burning plane. Davey crawled into the wreck and helped Rosenthal out. The Wireless Operators F/O John Vilhjalmur Johnson and Sgt Gerard Anthony Guinane had also come off the plane and together they inflated their dinghy and rowed around to find the other 5 crew members, but in vain.
They could see the coast of Denmark, but the wind came from the west and the current quickly took them off the coast. F/Sgt Rosenthal died in the following night, and as the dinghy leaked he had to be buried at sea. However, Rosenthal later drifted ashore at Svarthall, and he was buried in Varberg Churchyard in Sweden on 26 July 1945. After 36 hours the airmen in distress were finally spotted by a German observation post on Anholt and two Danish fishing boats "Vera" and "Hafnia" were sent out to pick up the 3 airmen. They were then taken to Anholt. Via Grenå they were transferred to Århus Municipal Hospital. In the days after the liberation they were met with great attention here."
3 airmen from HAL JP336 are buried in Odder, 1 in Sweden, 2 have no known graves and 3 were taken to German POW-Camps.
http://www.airmen.dk/e222002.htm
Find a grave memorials for the crew:
Sgt Edmund Newton Oddy - Buried in Odder
** Find A Grave Memorial# 17859181
F/O Maynard Annand Parker - Buried in Odder
**Find A Grave Memorial# 17859187
F/O Edgar Ivan Ford - Buried in Odder
**Find A Grave Memorial# 17859174
F/Sgt Thomas Ernest Parker Rosenthal - Buried in Varberg, Sweden
**Find A Grave Memorial# 10070810
Sgt George Geoffrey Cockroft - unknown grave- Runnymede Memorial
** Find A Grave Memorial# 15247999
P/O Robert Love McKinney - unknown grave- Runnymede Memorial
**Find A Grave Memorial# 15258947
F/O Lawrence Barclay Davey - POW
**Find A Grave Memorial# 144788736
Sgt Gerard Anthony Guinane - POW
**Find A Grave Memorial# 144794429
F/O John Vilhjalmur Johnson - POW
**Find A Grave Memorial# 144795091
Inscription
Thomas Ernest Parker Rosenthal. Aged 21. Son of Ernest and Ivy Louise Rosenthal, of Downham, Bromley, Kent.
Rank: F/Sgt
Service: RAF
Service No: 1800119
Sqdn: 058
Plane: HAL JP336
Operation: Anti ship
Crash_site: The Kattegat
Crash_date: d240445
HAL JP336 had to ditch in the Kattegat on 24 April 1945.
"F/O Lawrence Barclay Davey took off from Stornoway in HAL JP336 on 23 April 1945 at 20:15. At midnight the plane spotted a German convoy from Norway, and the plane was heavily damaged by flak during the first attack. Davey tried to reach land, but the plane had to ditch about 1 nautical mile northeast of Gjerrild in Djursland. It floated, burning, for half an hour. The fire was seen from land, but nobody sailed out to their rescue.
When F/O Davey got off the plane, he heard Co-Pilot F/Sgt Thomas Ernest Parker Rosenthal shouting for help from within the burning plane. Davey crawled into the wreck and helped Rosenthal out. The Wireless Operators F/O John Vilhjalmur Johnson and Sgt Gerard Anthony Guinane had also come off the plane and together they inflated their dinghy and rowed around to find the other 5 crew members, but in vain.
They could see the coast of Denmark, but the wind came from the west and the current quickly took them off the coast. F/Sgt Rosenthal died in the following night, and as the dinghy leaked he had to be buried at sea. However, Rosenthal later drifted ashore at Svarthall, and he was buried in Varberg Churchyard in Sweden on 26 July 1945. After 36 hours the airmen in distress were finally spotted by a German observation post on Anholt and two Danish fishing boats "Vera" and "Hafnia" were sent out to pick up the 3 airmen. They were then taken to Anholt. Via Grenå they were transferred to Århus Municipal Hospital. In the days after the liberation they were met with great attention here."
3 airmen from HAL JP336 are buried in Odder, 1 in Sweden, 2 have no known graves and 3 were taken to German POW-Camps.
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