Maurice Bell                                                                                                   Updated: 14 OCT 2021

Airman: e777743.htm Surname: Bell Init: M Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 115

P_link: p346.htm Plane: LAN LM127 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d270844 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Den 27. august 1944 styrtede LAN LM127 ned i Nordsøen under et bombetogt mod Kiel. Hele besætningen omkom. Se p346MACR.

Air Bomber D. F. O'Sullivan blev begravet i Esbjerg den 31. august 1944.
Pilot J. E. Morgan drev ind nær Vester Vedsted (omkring her) og nedgravet der af den tyske værnemagt.
Den 9. november 1945 begravede danskere ham i Esbjerg. (Kilde: FAF)

Sergeant Maurice Bell, 21 år, var søn af  William Morrish Bell og Harriet Emma Bell, Castleford, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 225 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)
Han var Wireless Operator / Air Gunner
LAN LM127. (Kilde: MACR)

2 flyvere fra LAN LM127 blev begravet i Esbjerg og 1 i HOLLAND. 4 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.

Se Lancaster fotos. 7 flyvere.

On 27 August 1944 LAN LM127  crashed in the North Sea on a bombing raid targeting Kiel. All of the crew perished. See p346MACR.

Air Bomber D. F. O'Sullivan was buried in Esbjerg on 31 August 1944.
Pilot J. E. Morgan was washed ashore near Vester Vedsted (about here) and dug down there by the German Wehrmacht.
On 9 November 1945 Danes buried him in Esbjerg. (Source: FAF)

Sergeant Maurice Bell, 21, was the son of William Morrish Bell and Harriet Emma Bell, of Castleford, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 225, 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 129. 382 Lancasters out - 17 lost. More on IBCC at airmen.

He was the Wireless Operator / Air Gunner of
LAN LM127. (Source: MACR)

2 airmen from LAN LM127 were buried in Esbjerg and 1 in HOLLAND. 4 airmen have no known grave.

See No. 115 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * Lancaster Photos * No. 115 Squadron RAF Memorial.
Lancaster I LM127 KO-H  took off from RAF Witchford at 2027 hrs on 26 AUG 1941. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  

7 airmen.