Crash site: Celtic Sea near Lundy Island, Cornwall, GB
Crash cause: bad weather
Name |
1. Hazeu, Wouter
W. Hazeu Source: BRIOP |
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Rank |
Tijd Sgt Maj Vl MLD, F/Sgt, Copilot |
RAF VR 1549980 |
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Decorations |
None known |
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Born |
19/4/1919 |
Place |
Hilversum, NL |
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Squadron |
RAF 172 Sqn Coastal Command |
Ops/hr |
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Aircraft |
Wellington Mk. XIV Nr. NB831 |
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Base |
RAF Chivenor, Devonshire, GB |
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Mission |
Leight Light patrol |
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Status |
MIA, aircraft crashed at sea in bad weather |
age |
25 |
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Missing |
15/7/1944 |
Place |
Celtic Sea near Lundy Island, Cornwall, GB |
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Known to |
OGS |
yes |
CWGC |
yes |
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Other crew |
2. F/Sgt. Norman Stanley Birch, RAF VR 1315909, Wop/Ag, age 21 – MIA, Runnymede Panel 215 3. F/O. Thomas John Paul Magee RCAF J/21751, Nav, age 21 – MIA, Runnymede Panel 247 4. F/Sgt. Henry Bruce McAuley RNZAF 421281, Wop/Ag, age 22 - KIA, buried Bath (Haycombe) Cem, grave 51/H/V/240 5. F/O. John Francis WatersRAAF 408542, Pilot, age 26 - KIA, buried Bath (Haycombe) Cem, grave 51/H/T/240 6. F/Sgt. Frederick Asby Wilkinson, RAF VR 1331024, Wop/Ag - MIA, Runnymede Panel 223 |
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Remarks |
Before the War, he was a bank employee. Married to Margaret Elizabeth Hazeu-Guy, Watford, Hertfordshire, GB. One child. Source: BRIOP |
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Memorial |
Runnymede, panel 218 |
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GB arrival |
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Data Confusion |
CWGC: age was 26 |
Headstone crests of three members of this highly multinational crew. Left to right RAAF, RCAF, RNZAF
Map 81. Celtic Sea around Lundy Island, crash area of Wellington Mk. XIV Nr. NB831, taking the life of W. Hazeu and the 5 non-Dutch crew, on 15/7/1944.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning we will remember them. - Laurence Binyon
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