{"id":5120,"date":"2020-07-30T14:35:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T14:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=5120"},"modified":"2021-05-10T05:10:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T05:10:19","slug":"bluston-hyam-maurice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/bluston-hyam-maurice\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluston, Hyam Maurice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Navigator, 18 Squadron
Service number 1321872
Died 28 Dec 1944
Buried Coriano Ridge War Cemetery, Italy
Age 23<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Headstone Inscription
‘IN CHERISHED AND UNFADING MEMORY OF OUR VERY PRECIOUS SON AND BROTHER’ <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hyam was born on 9 Aug 1921 in Hackney to Simon and Hannah nee Weiner and was the youngest of six children. Their father worked as a cabinet maker in Shoreditch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hyam known as Mick was killed in aircraft Boston BZ557. The crew were flying on a night intruder\/armed recce of Villafranca aerodrome when the aircraft was hit by flak. The aircraft was seen to be enveloped in fire when it crashed with no survivors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The crew were:
S\/Ldr. Kenneth Graham Hart, Pilot
F\/O John Woods, W\/Op
WO Robert James Frizzel, Air Gunner, (RNZAF) <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The four men are buried together in a collective grave.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n