Den 12. januar 1945 forsvandt HAL MZ812 sporløst under en minelægningsoperation til Kattegat. (Kilde: p388MACR)

Sergeant Leslie Franklin Connell, 22 år, var søn af James R. og Elizabeth Connell, Bromley, Kent, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 274 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

7 flyvere.

On 12 January 1945 HAL MZ812 was lost without trace on a minelaying operation to the Kattegat. (Source: p388MACR)

Sergeant Leslie Franklin Connell, 22, was the son of James R. and Elizabeth Connell, of Bromley, Kent, United Kingdom.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 147.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 274, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)

No.77 Squadron RAF * 77 Squadron Association * Halifax * Halifax Print * Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum * Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum.
Halifax III MZ812 KN-X took off from RAF Full Sutton at 17:45 on 12 JAN 1945. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) Google Map 77 Squadron DK  7 airmen.

49 airmen of 77 Squadron: 23 buried in Denmark, 4 in Germany, 17 no known grave, 1 prisoner of war and 4 airmen evaded to Sweden.