Herbert L. Price                                                                                       Updated: 07 MAY 2021

Airman: e777488.htm Surname: Price Init: H L Rank: W/C Service: RAF Sqdn: 156

P_link: p093.htm Plane: WEL BJ840 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d290742 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Kl. 23.01 den 28. juli 1942 lettede WEL BJ840 fra RAF Alconbury på et bombeangreb mod Hamburg. Flyet medbragte 1 x 4,000 HC bombe.
Flyet styrtede i Nordsøen. Ingen overlevende. (Kilde: p093MACR)

Den 16. august 1942 begravede feltpræst dr. Hölger, Sild (her), en ukendt flyver, senere identificeret som J. T. Bray. (Kilde: FAF)

Wing Commander Herbert Laurence Price, 30, was the son of John H. and Muriel V. Price, of Parway, Devon, United Kingdom.
Hæderstegn: D F C, Distinguished Flying Cross.
Hans navn er på Panel 64 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)
Han var Pilot på WEL BJ840. (Kilde: MACR)

1 flyver fra WEL BJ840 blev begravet på Kirkeby Kirkegård. 5 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. 6 flyvere.

At 23.01 hrs. on 28 July 1942 WEL BJ840 took off from RAF Alconbury on a bombing raid targeting Hamburg. A/c carried 1 x 4,000 HC bomb.
The plane crashed in the North Sea. No survivors. (Source: p093MACR)

On 16 August 1942 Army Chaplain Dr. Hölger, Sylt (here), buried an unknown airman, later identified as J. T. Bray. (Source: FAF)

Wing Commander Herbert Laurence Price, 30, was the son of John H. and Muriel V. Price, of Parway, Devon, United Kingdom.
Awards: D F C, the Distinguished Flying Cross.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 64, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
He was the Pilot of WEL BJ840. (Source: MACR)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 228.

1 airman of WEL BJ840 was buried in Kirkeby Churchyard. 5 airmen have no known graves.

See No. 156 Squadron RAF (Wikipedia)*156 Squadron RAF*No. 156 Squadron Association*156 Squadron Pathfinder Force* Wellington
Wellington III BJ840 GT- took off from RAF Alconbury at 23.01 hrs on 28 JUL 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)
6 airmen.