Donald J. K. Baron  Photo: Lars Wikander   Updated: 03 NOV 2011

Airman: e222025.htm Surname: Baron Init: DJK Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 300

P_link: p474.htm Plane: LAN ED327 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The Kattegat

Crash_d: d300844 Buried_d: e222 C_link: e222f.htm At_Next: Falkenberg, S

Sergeant (Air Bomber) Donald John Kelsall Baron, 22 år, var søn af Dr. Alfred
Edward Baron og Constance Evelyn Baron, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom.
Han hviler på Falkenbergs Skogskyrkogaard.

Sgt Baron var i Lancaster B.I ED327 (BH-R) fra 300 PAF Squadron på bombetogt til
Stettin her, da flyet over Jylland blev svært beskadiget af en tysk natjager.

Pilot F/O Harry Lupton prøvede at nå Sverige, men kort før 01.00 den 30. august 1944
ramte flyet vandet nordøst for Anholt, omkring her. 6 flyvere fra LAN ED327 har ingen kendt grav. Måske er den ukendte flyver i Falkenberg fra dette fly.

Den 8. september 1944 blev liget af Sgt Baron fundet i farvandet ud for Falkenberg, og den
12. september blev han begravet på Falkenberg Kirkegaard, Sverige. (Kilde: FT 91-6-37)
Han blev fundet her den 8. september 1944 (Kilde: Lars Wikander).

Sergeant (Air Bomber) Donald John Kelsall Baron, 22, was the son of
Dr. Alfred Edward Baron and Constance Evelyn Baron, of Hampstead, London, UK.
He rests in Falkenberg Forest Cemetery.

Sgt Baron was in Lancaster B.I ED327 (BH-R) from 300 (Polish) Squadron on a bombing raid
to Stettin here, when the plane was heavily damaged over Jutland by a German night fighter.

Pilot F/O Harry Lupton tried to make it to Sweden, but the plane ditched northeast of Anholt about here shortly before 01.00 hrs on 30 August 1944. 6 airmen from LAN ED327 have no known grave. Maybe the Unknown Airman is from this plane.

The body of Sgt Baron was found off Falkenberg on 8 September 1944.
He was buried on 12 September 1944 in Falkenberg Cemetery, Sweden. (Source: FT 91-6-37)
He was found here on 8 September 1944. (Source: Lars Wikander)

See Bomber Command No. 300 (Polish) Squadron * The Poles on the Front Lines * No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron * No 300 (Masovian) Squadron
Polish Air Forces in France and Great Britain. This Lancaster - see Lancaster photos - took off from RAF Faldingworth in Lincolnshire.
5 airmen. Lost Bombers has this.