Den 19. marts 1940 styrtede WHI N1405 i Nordsøen ved Sild (den tyske ø syd for Rømø). Hele besætningen omkom.

Wireless Operator William George Newton blev fundet ilanddrevet på stranden på Rømø (måske omkring her) den 26. maj 1940. Ved den af værnemagten arrangerede militærbegravelse den 28. maj foretog sognepræst R. Jørgensen jordpåkastelsen.

Bertram David Shepperson forsvandt i havet. John Edward Baskerville, Leslie Close og Emery Orville Fennell ligger begravet i Kiel i Tyskland. (Kilde: FAF)

Leading Aircraftman (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Leslie Close, 20 år, var søn af Henry Seymour Close og Barbara Close, Burnhope, Co. Durham, United Kingdom. Han er begravet på KIEL WAR CEMETERY 3. B. 20. i Tyskland. (Kilde: CWGC)

5 flyvere. Se Google Map 51 Squadron.

On 19 March 1940 WHI N1405 crashed into the North Sea at Sylt (the German island south of Rømø). All of the crew perished.

On 26 May 1940 Wireless Operator William George Newton was found drifted ashore on Rømø (maybe about here). On 28 May the Wehrmacht carried out a military burial where Vicar R. Jørgensen officiated at the graveside.

Bertram David Shepperson disappeared at sea. John Edward Baskerville, Leslie Close and Emery Orville Fennell are buried in Kiel in Germany. (Source: FAF)

Leading Aircraftman (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Leslie Close, 20, was the son of Henry Seymour Close and Barbara Close, of Burnhope, Co. Durham, United Kingdom. He is buried in KIEL WAR CEMETERY 3. B. 20. in Germany. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 145.  

Whitley V N1405 MH-? from No, 51 Squadron RAF took off from RAF Dishforth at 20:35 on 19 MAR 1940. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this + Archive Report.) 
See Whitley * The 51 Squadron Website *  Google Map 51 Squadron * p002MACR.
5 airmen.