Crash Location Halifax HR 724 NP-W

Just back from the nocturnal attack of 11 June 1943 at Düsseldorf, the crew of the Halifax HR724 NP-W had to prepare for a nocturnal attack on Bochem on 12 June.

The Halifax HR724 NP-W belonged to the Bomber Command No.158 Squadron at Lisett, a small airfield on the east coast of England.

Halifax HR724NP-W was on its way back home after the center of Bochum and the Ruhr area was bombed. Halifax HR724 NP-W broadcast at 2.20 a distress call for help received by the mast at Hull on the English coast.

The fleet armada lost 14 Lancasters and 10 Halifaxes that night including the Halifax HR724 NP-W. On June 13, 1943 at 2.30, the Halifax HR 724 NP-W made an emergency landing between Silvolde and Ulft. The plane caught fire and the cry for help from the Halifax was horrifying.

Because we do not forget:

Wireless Operator Hugh Telfer Wooldridge - Buried in the Roman Catholic cemetery at Gendringen
Airbomber Edward Thurlow - Buried in the Roman Catholic cemetery at Gendringen
Navigator Frank Oliver - Buried in the Roman Catholic cemetery in Gendringen
Airgunner Reginald John Cook - badly injured, died the same day in a hospital in Amsterdam. He is buried at De Nieuwe Ooster cemetery in Amsterdam

Flight Engineer Roger Victor Palland survived the crash POW
Pilot Service Basil Christopher Wordsworth survived the crash POW
Reargunner Edwin Ronald Mc Cunnell survived the crash POW

Property: De Moezeköttel Foundation

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Source

• Text: Maarten Koudijs & Hille Oppedijk
• Photos: Maarten Koudijs