Esmond Clive Elder      Photo: Knud Riis    Updated:  31 MAR 2013

Airman: a014007.htm Surname: Elder Init: E C Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 139

P_link: p039.htm Plane: BLE V6322 Operation: Anti ship Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d300741 Buried_d: b050941 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A. 14. 17

Den 30. juli 1941 styrtede BLE V6322 i Nordsøen under et dag-bombetogt til byer og mål i
NV Tyskland. Ingen overlevende.

4 af 12 bombefly gik tabt. BLE V6176 * BLE V6266 * BLE V6322 * BLE V6439. (Kilde: MACR)

E. C. Elder blev fundet ved Blåvand (omkring her) og begravet i Esbjerg den 5. september 1941.
(Kilde: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Air Gunner) Esmond Clive Elder, 33 år, var søn af Mr. og Mrs. Thomas Coutts Elder;
gift med Hazel Irene Elder, Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

1 flyver fra BLE V6322 blev begravet i Esbjerg. 2 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. 3 flyvere.

On 30 July 1941 BLE V6322 crashed in the North Sea on a day bombing raid on towns and targets
in N.W. Germany. No survivors.
4 of 12 bombers were lost. BLE V6176 * BLE V6266 * BLE V6322 * BLE V6439. (Source: MACR)

E. C. Elder was found near Blåvand (about here) and buried in Esbjerg on 5 September 1941.
(Source: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Air Gunner) Esmond Clive Elder, 33, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Coutts Elder,
and the husband of Hazel Irene Elder, of Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire, United Kingdom. (CWGC)
"One short sleep past.  We wake eternally, and death shall be no more"  Hazel, Gillian

1 airman from BLE V6322 was buried in Esbjerg. 2 airmen have no known grave.
Bomber Command No. 139 Squadron * No. 139 Squadron RAF *
This Bristol Blenheim took off from RAF Oulton. See the Blenheim Society. 3 airmen.