Date: 1940 Jun 27/27			A/C Type: Blenheim IV		SN: P6957		Code: LA-R		A/C Nickname:
File: 375		Airforce: RAF		Sqn/Unit: 325 Sqn Coastal			Mission/Raid: patrol Zuyder Sea area.
1	Pilot	P/O Peter Weil                                        Borkum?					9
2	Navigator	Sgt. Sidney K. Bartlett                         The Hague					10
3	WO/AG	Sgt. Alan Kempster                                Egmond					11
4	Bomb aimer						12
5	F/Engineer						13
6	Tail gunner						14
7							15
8							16
Searched for missing aircraft (Crockart 26 June 1940). Crashed in North Sea west of The Hague. All 3 KIA and washed ashore.

Peter Weil washed ashore in the German Bight and buried there. After the war he was reburied in Becklingen War Cemetery.

Sgt. Bartlett washed ashore same day (or recovered from sea) and is buried in The Hague Westduin cemetery (see our site page on The Hague Westduin).

Sgt. Alan Kempster washed ashore on 8 August 1940 and was initially buried in Egmond (Emgond aan Zee or Egmond-Binnen) on the Churchyard of the Protestant Church (Hervormde Kerk). He was reburied post war in Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Nijmegen, grave 19 H.6. 




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