Den 4. juli 1940 styrtede HAM P4352 i Nordsøen under en minelægningsoperation til området omkring her ved sydspidsen af Langeland.
Se Minelægningsområder. Hele besætningen omkom.

HAM P4352 forlod RAF Waddington kl. 21.22 den 3. juli 1940. Operation antages at være gennemført. Rapporterede at flyve på en motor (af to) kl. 01.03.
Sidste stedbestemmelse kl. 03.47.  (Kilde: p010MACR)

Sergeant (Navigator) Eric Thomas Apperson, 22 år, var søn af Henry og Constance M. Apperson, Birkenhead, Cheshire, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 11 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC og MACR)

1 flyver fra HAM P4352 blev begravet i Nr. Lyngvig. 3 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. 4 flyvere.
 
On 4 July 1940 HAM P4352 crashed into the North Sea on a minelaying operation to the area about here at the south point of Langeland.
See Minelaying areas. All of the crew perished.

HAM P4352 left RAF Waddington at 2122 hrs on 3 July 1940. Operation presumed to have been carried out. Reported flying on one engine 01:03.
Last fix 03:47. (Source: p010MACR)

Sergeant (Navigator) Eric Thomas Apperson, 22, was the son of Henry and Constance M. Apperson, of Birkenhead, Cheshire, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 11, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC and MACR)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 3.      

1 airman from HAM P4352 was buried in Norre Lyngvig. 3 airmen have no known grave.

See Hampden * No. 44 Squadron RAF in Wikipedia * No. 44 Squadron (RAF): Second World War * RAF-Lincolnshire.info: 44 Squadron.
Hampden I P4352 KM-  took off from RAF Waddington on 03 JUL 1940. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  4 airmen.