Eric K. Hart                                                                                               Updated:  04 MAR 2021

Airman: e777568.htm Surname: Hart Init: E K Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 429

P_link: p144.htm Plane: WEL BK540 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d300343 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Kl. 19.45 den 29. marts 1943 lettede WEL BK540 fra RAF East Moor på et bombetogt mod Bochum.
Flyet gik tabt i havet, antageligt i Nordsøen. Der var ingen overlevende. (Kilde: p144MACR)

D. L. Bain blev fundet som lig i Esbjerg havn (omkring her). Han blev begravet i Esbjerg den 12. juli 1943. (Kilde: FAF)

Flight Sergeant Eric Kelvin Hart, 34 år, var søn af William Edward og Alice Louise Hart; gift med Betty Hart, Coniston, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 137 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

Han var Air Bomber på WEL BK540. (Kilde: MACR)

1 flyver fra WEL BK540 blev begravet i Esbjerg. 4 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. 5 flyvere.

At 19.45 hrs. on 29 March 1943 WEL BK540 took off from RAF East Moor on a bombing raid targeting Bochum, see The Nazi era and World War II.
It was lost at sea, North Sea presumed. There were no survivors. (Source: p144MACR)

The body of D. L. Bain was found in the harbour of Esbjerg (about here). He was buried in Esbjerg on 12 July 1943. (Source: FAF)

Flight Sergeant Eric Kelvin Hart, 34, was the son of William Edward and Alice Louise Hart; husband of Betty Hart, of Coniston, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 137, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 178.

He was the Air Bomber of WEL BK540. (Source: MACR)

1 airman from WEL BK540  was buried in Esbjerg. 4 airmen have no known grave.

See No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons*No. 429 (Bison) Squadron)*429 sqn RCAF Research*429 Squadron RCAF Association*429 Transport Squadron

Wellington III BK540 AL-  took off from RAF East Moor at 19.45 hrs. on 29 MAR 1943. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this).  5 airmen.