Monument to Four Crews of Bomber Command

This monument next to the church in Lozen, hamlet of Bocholt commemorates the perished crews of three British and one Canadian bombers that crashed in the Lozen area during World War II .

16-07-1941: Wellington R1624 of 57 Squadron RAF, crashed during a mission to Duisburg, the 5 crew members are buried in the British Military Cemetery in Heverlee;
31-08-1943: Wellington X HE988 of 166 Squadron RAF, crashed during a mission to Mönchengladbach, 5 crew members, all killed;
22-04-1944: Halifax III HX291 of 433 Squadron RCAF, crashed during a mission to Dusseldorf, 7 crew members, three of them killed and buried in the British Military Cemetery in Heverlee;
22-06-1944: Lancaster I ME843 of 630 Squadron RAF, crashed during a mission to Wesseling, 7 crew members, all killed.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Dieter Donné
• - https://www.verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/ahome/lossregister/results?sglo=T5639
• - https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/140863