Date: 1940 Aug 29/30			A/C Type: Blenheim IV		SN: N3620		Code: OM-		A/C Nickname:
File: 701		Airforce: RAF		Sqn/Unit: 107 Sqn			Mission/Raid: Den Helder airfield the Kooy.
1	Pilot	P/O  Ernest R. Berry					9
2	Navigator	Sgt. Alfred P. Sully					10
3	WO/AG	Sgt. Henry Bentham					11
4	Bomb aimer						12
5	F/Engineer						13
6	Top turret						14
7	Tail gunner						15
8							16
Shot down by German Flak defending Kooy airfield. Crashed in the Wadden Sea in a tital area named Balgzand.  All three initially buried Huisduinen/Den Helder and in 1947 reburied in Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery.

In Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery they were kept together and also buried next to each other in plot 32, row B, graven 1, 2 and 3.

See our site article on the Bergen-op-Zoom centralisation cemetery.


Source

- site CWGC




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