"Belgians Remember Them": RAF aircraft's crash sites: Hamont-Achel

* To the 630 Squadron *
* To the crew of ME843-LE-U *
* To the monument erected in remembrance *
* Cemetery where rest the crew *

Crash site of Lancaster ME843-LE-U
22/06/1944

Unit: 630 Squadron
Aircraft: Lancaster
Code: ME843-LE-U
Base: East Kirby
Mission: Wesseling
Crew officer: P/O HOOPER, ROBERT CECIL
Incident: Shot down by German fighter

Location: (Prov. Limburg)

Facts

Lancaster I ME843 LE-U 630 Sqn. Operation; Wesseling. Take off 23.27 East Kirby. Believed shot down by a night-fighter, crashing in flames between Hamont, Belgium on the Belgian-Dutch border and Bocholt, a small town 3 km NNW of Bree, Belgium. All are buried in Heverlee War Cemetery.

Sources:
Facebook-Heverlee War Cemetery WW1 & WW2
The International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)
Aircrew Remembered

* Report: July 15th, 2023: The Belgians Parade to the London Cenotaph *

RAF aircraft's crash sites in Province of Limburg:
Hamont-Achel

Crash site of Lancaster ME843-LE-U
22/06/1944

Location: (Prov. Limburg)

Facts

* Report: July 15th, 2023: The Belgians Parade to the London Cenotaph *

RAF aircraft's crash sites in Province of Limburg:Hamont-Achel

Crash site of Lancaster ME843-LE-U22/06/1944

Location: (Prov. Limburg)

Facts

RAF aircraft's crash sites in Province of Limburg:
Hamont-Achel

Crash site of Lancaster ME843-LE-U
22/06/1944