Sergeant ( Nav. ) 1579769 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Age 21
Avro Lancaster III / ND913 / A4-M2
Take off station Witchford
Night Raid Operation Homberg- Meerbeck oil plant.
EDWARD JOHN LINE was serving as a Sergeant, Navigator, with 115 Squadron, The Royal Air Force when he was killed on active service on 21st July 1944. He was aged 21 and is buried in Papendrecht General Cemetery in the Netherlands.
He was born in Newport Pagnell and enlisted into the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in June 1941 and trained as a Navigator and joined 115 Squadron at RAF Witchford near Ely, Cambridgeshire, flying the Avro Lancaster. In April 1944 he married Marie Bellinger in 1944. On 20th July 1944, he was in the crew of Lancaster Mk III MM510 K-OK, named “Popeye” that took off from Witchford at 22:50. They were part of a force of 147 Lancasters and 11 Mosquitos on a target Bottrop Oil Plant near Homberg, Germany. Most probably the aircraft got into trouble near Rotterdam after it had been hit by anti-aircraft fire. Just after midnight the burning aircraft appeared from behind the clouds over Papendrecht. The aircraft exploded after the fire had reached the bomb bay. One crew member tried to jump to safety with his parachute but burned alive because of the leaking flames. All 7 members of the crew perished.
His wife gave birth to their daughter, Linda, in January 1945 in Potterspury, Northants.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Line. Husband of Marie Line, of Potterspury, Northamptonshire.
Age 21
Avro Lancaster III / ND913 / A4-M2
Take off station Witchford
Night Raid Operation Homberg- Meerbeck oil plant.
EDWARD JOHN LINE was serving as a Sergeant, Navigator, with 115 Squadron, The Royal Air Force when he was killed on active service on 21st July 1944. He was aged 21 and is buried in Papendrecht General Cemetery in the Netherlands.
He was born in Newport Pagnell and enlisted into the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in June 1941 and trained as a Navigator and joined 115 Squadron at RAF Witchford near Ely, Cambridgeshire, flying the Avro Lancaster. In April 1944 he married Marie Bellinger in 1944. On 20th July 1944, he was in the crew of Lancaster Mk III MM510 K-OK, named “Popeye” that took off from Witchford at 22:50. They were part of a force of 147 Lancasters and 11 Mosquitos on a target Bottrop Oil Plant near Homberg, Germany. Most probably the aircraft got into trouble near Rotterdam after it had been hit by anti-aircraft fire. Just after midnight the burning aircraft appeared from behind the clouds over Papendrecht. The aircraft exploded after the fire had reached the bomb bay. One crew member tried to jump to safety with his parachute but burned alive because of the leaking flames. All 7 members of the crew perished.
His wife gave birth to their daughter, Linda, in January 1945 in Potterspury, Northants.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Line. Husband of Marie Line, of Potterspury, Northamptonshire.
Sergeant ( Nav. ) 1579769 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Age 21
Avro Lancaster III / ND913 / A4-M2
Take off station Witchford
Night Raid Operation Homberg- Meerbeck oil plant.
EDWARD JOHN LINE was serving as a Sergeant, Navigator, with 115 Squadron, The Royal Air Force when he was killed on active service on 21st July 1944. He was aged 21 and is buried in Papendrecht General Cemetery in the Netherlands.
He was born in Newport Pagnell and enlisted into the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in June 1941 and trained as a Navigator and joined 115 Squadron at RAF Witchford near Ely, Cambridgeshire, flying the Avro Lancaster. In April 1944 he married Marie Bellinger in 1944. On 20th July 1944, he was in the crew of Lancaster Mk III MM510 K-OK, named “Popeye” that took off from Witchford at 22:50. They were part of a force of 147 Lancasters and 11 Mosquitos on a target Bottrop Oil Plant near Homberg, Germany. Most probably the aircraft got into trouble near Rotterdam after it had been hit by anti-aircraft fire. Just after midnight the burning aircraft appeared from behind the clouds over Papendrecht. The aircraft exploded after the fire had reached the bomb bay. One crew member tried to jump to safety with his parachute but burned alive because of the leaking flames. All 7 members of the crew perished.
His wife gave birth to their daughter, Linda, in January 1945 in Potterspury, Northants.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Line. Husband of Marie Line, of Potterspury, Northamptonshire.
Age 21
Avro Lancaster III / ND913 / A4-M2
Take off station Witchford
Night Raid Operation Homberg- Meerbeck oil plant.
EDWARD JOHN LINE was serving as a Sergeant, Navigator, with 115 Squadron, The Royal Air Force when he was killed on active service on 21st July 1944. He was aged 21 and is buried in Papendrecht General Cemetery in the Netherlands.
He was born in Newport Pagnell and enlisted into the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in June 1941 and trained as a Navigator and joined 115 Squadron at RAF Witchford near Ely, Cambridgeshire, flying the Avro Lancaster. In April 1944 he married Marie Bellinger in 1944. On 20th July 1944, he was in the crew of Lancaster Mk III MM510 K-OK, named “Popeye” that took off from Witchford at 22:50. They were part of a force of 147 Lancasters and 11 Mosquitos on a target Bottrop Oil Plant near Homberg, Germany. Most probably the aircraft got into trouble near Rotterdam after it had been hit by anti-aircraft fire. Just after midnight the burning aircraft appeared from behind the clouds over Papendrecht. The aircraft exploded after the fire had reached the bomb bay. One crew member tried to jump to safety with his parachute but burned alive because of the leaking flames. All 7 members of the crew perished.
His wife gave birth to their daughter, Linda, in January 1945 in Potterspury, Northants.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Line. Husband of Marie Line, of Potterspury, Northamptonshire.
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BELOVED HUSBAND OF MARIE AND FATHER OF LINDA. EVER IN OUR THOUGHTS
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