Herbert Wilkins                                                                                    Updated: 13 JAN 2023

Airman: e444025.htm Surname: Wilkins Init: H Rank: F/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 582

P_link: p376.htm Plane: LAN PB378 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d160944 Buried_d: e444 C_link: e444.htm At_Next: GERMANY

Den 16. september 1944 styrtede LAN PB378 i Nordsøen i forbindelse med et bombetogt til Kiel. Alle ombord omkom. (Kilde: FAF) Se p376MACR.

Flying Officer (Air Bomber) Herbert Wilkins, 23 år, var søn af William Christopher og Isabel Violet Wilkins, Rhiwbina, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.

Han er begravet i Tyskland på
Kiel War Cemetery, Grave ref. 4. F. 9. (Kilde: CWGC)

2 flyvere fra LAN PB378 har ingen kendt grav, 2 er begravet i Tyskland, 2 i Esbjerg og 1 i Nr. Haurvig.

Se Lancaster fotos. 7 flyvere.

On 16 September 1944 LAN PB378 crashed into the North Sea on a bombing raid on Kiel. All on board perished. (Source: FAF) See p376MACR.

Flying Officer (Air Bomber) Herbert Wilkins, 23, was the son of William Christopher and Isabel Violet Wilkins, of Rhiwbina, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.

He is buried in Germany in
Kiel War Cemetery, Grave ref. 4. F. 9. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 264.   

His name is also found on the Whitchurch Cenotaph in Whitchurch Glamorgan. See also Whitchurch, Cardiff.

2 flyvere fra LAN PB378 have no known grave, 2 are buried in Germany, 2 in Esbjerg and 1 in Nr. Haurvig.

See No. 582 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia. This Lancaster - see Lancaster Photos - took off from RAF Little Staughton.

See the LITTLE STAUGHTON - RAF Book of Remembrance.

Lancaster III PB378 6O-T took off from  RAF Little Staughton at 22:26 on 15 OCT 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 7 airmen.