P. L. Lander                                                                                         Updated:  07 NOV 2012

Airman: e777451.htm Surname: Lander Init: P L Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 235

P_link: p044.htm Plane: BLE T1807 Operation: Patrol Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d081141 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Den 8. november 1941 styrtede BLE T1807 i Nordsøen under eskorteflyvning for 3 flyvebåde og u-båden HMS Rubis på eftersøgning.
Flyet forlod RAF Dyce kl. 07.25 den 8. november 1941. Det ramte vandet kl. 11.17 og sank. Hele besætningen omkom.

Liget af Sgt Leake drev ind nær Hirtshals (omkring her). (Kilde: MACR)

Pilot Officer Peter Lockhart Lander, 26, M.A. (Cantab.), var søn af Gerard Heath Lander og Margaret Lockhart Lander, Lilliput, Dorsetshire,
United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 33 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

Han var Pilot på BLE T1807. (Kilde: MACR)
3 flyvere.

On 8 November 1941 crashed into the North Sea. It escorted 3 flying boats and HMS Rubis (submarine) on search.
The plane left RAF Dyce at 0725 hours on 8 November 1941. It hit the water at 1117 hours and sank. All of the crew perished.

The body of Sgt Leake drifted ashore near Hirtshals (about here.) (Source: MACR)

Pilot Officer Peter Lockhart Lander, 26, M.A. (Cantab.), was the son of Gerard Heath Lander and Margaret Lockhart Lander, of Lilliput, Dorsetshire,
United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 33, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)

He was the Pilot of BLE T1807. (Source: MACR)

See No. 235 Squadron RAF. This Blenheim from RAF Coastal Command took off from RAF Dyce - now Aberdeen Airport.
3 airmen.