{"id":480,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=480"},"modified":"2020-12-07T12:51:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T12:51:26","slug":"hond-reginald-samuel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/hond-reginald-samuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Hond, Reginald Samuel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Wireless Operator, 75 (New Zealand) Squadron
Service number 1214443
Died 5 October 1944
Buried Rheinberg War Cemetery, Germany
Age 23<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Headstone Inscription
‘IN LOVING MEMORY. MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reginald was born in 1921 in West Ham, Essex to Henry and Freda n\u00e9e Goldstein and had two older siblings, Gertrude and Stanley. Their father Henry was a stained glass worker and their mother Freda ran a tobacconist shop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reginald was the wireless operator on Lancaster ND904 which departed from RAF Mepal on a night operation to Saarbrucken. The aircraft collided mid-air with a Lancaster from 115 Squadron, PD344 over Germany. Both aircraft crashed at Wolsfeld, Germany killing both crews. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pilot, F\/S Alan Russell Galletly, RNZAF
Nav, F\/S Stuart Edwin Mosley, RNZAF
A\/B, Sgt. Roy Albert Wells
W\/Op, Sgt. Reginald Samuel Hond
F\/E, Sgt. Peter Eric Tuthill
MUG, Sgt. Arthur Kitchener Sutton,
R\/G, Sgt. John Peter Cooke<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n