{"id":470,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=470"},"modified":"2021-03-30T11:16:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T11:16:32","slug":"hatzfeld-emile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/hatzfeld-emile\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatzfeld, Emile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Flight Engineer, 467 (Australian) Squadron
Service number 188725
Died 30 August 1944
Commemorated on Runnymede Memorial
Age 36<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Emile (known as Bill) was born in October 1907 in Wimbledon, Surrey to Cecil and Eva n\u00e9e Logan. Emile was named after his French born grandfather who was a music publisher and lecturer and a good friend of the composer Tchaikovsky. Emile’s father Cecil worked as a bank clerk in 1911 and then became an accountant. Emile’s mother Eva died in 1932. Emile married Dorothy Munford on 2 September 1934 in Dagenham, Essex and their son Paul was born in 1935. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Emile was the flight engineer on Lancaster LM237 which departed RAF Waddington on a night operation to Konigsberg. The aircraft was hit by flak and crashed 30 miles west of Konigsberg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
F\/L Dennis Boden Tattersall, killed<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sgt Emile Hatzfeld, killed<\/p>\n\n\n\n
F\/O J Sutcliffe RCAF, POW<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sgt Patrick William O’Leary, RCAF, killed<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sgt Clifford Pearson, killed<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sgt Christopher Alexander, killed<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sgt Edward Clark Reid, killed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n