Paul Hereford           Photo: Knud Riis    Updated: 10 MAY 2021

Airman: a014062.htm Surname: Hereford Init: P Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 44

P_link: p117.htm Plane: LAN W4187 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Skallingen

Crash_d: d011042 Buried_d: b071042 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A3. 9. c8

Den 1. oktober 1942 kl. 21.08 styrtede LAN W4187 ned på Skallingen (omkring her).
(Kilde: Kortet Flystyrt ved Esbjerg af Torben Thorsen og Morten S. Jensen)
Det var på bombetogt til Wismar. Ingen overlevende. (Kilde: p117MACR)
Alle 7 flyvere blev begravet i Esbjerg den 7. oktober 1942. (Kilde: FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Observer) Paul Hereford, 19 år, var søn af Sydney Bertram og
Josephine Raie Hereford, Edgware, Middlesex, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

Se Lancaster fotos.

On 1 October 1942 at 2108 hours  LAN W4187 crashed on Skallingen (about here).
(Source: The map Air Crashes at Esbjerg by Torben Thorsen and Morten S. Jensen)
It was on a bombing raid on Wismar.  No survivors. (Source: p117MACR)

All 7 airmen were buried in Esbjerg on 7 October 1942. (Source: FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Observer) Paul Hereford, 19, was the son of Sydney Bertram and
Josephine Raie Hereford, of Edgware, Middlesex, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
Among the very brave, the very true
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 1, Panel 48.

See No. 44 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * No. 44 Squadron (RAF): Second World War
RAF-Lincolnshire.info: 44 Squadron * RAF Waddington now * Lancaster Photos

Lancaster I W4187 KM-S took off from RAF Waddington at 18.00 hrs on 01 OCT 1942.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  7 airmen.