TracesOfWar needs your help! Every euro, pound or dollar you contribute greatly supports the continuation of this website. Go to stiwot.nl and donate!

Boone, Ronald Henry

Date of death:
June 12th, 1943 (Giessenburg, the Netherlands)
Buried on:
Commonwealth War Graves General Cemetery Crooswijk
Plot: LL. Row: 1. Grave: 41-42.
Service number:
1331310
Nationality:
British (1801-present, Kingdom)

Biography

Air Gunner, Sergeant Ronald Boone was on June 11th, 1943 part of the crew of Handley Page Halifax JB785 (fellow crewmembers Pilot Officer George Racine Herbert, Sergeant Ernest Cassingham, Sergeant R. H. Makin, Flight Sergeant Francis Greenwood, Pilot Officer Archibald Wallace and Sergeant Frank Stewart) on a mission to Münster. On the way back the aircraft was shot down at 02.40 hrs by Leutnant Werner Baake. The aircraft crashed near Giessenburg in the Netherlands. Pilot Officer Wallace and Sergeant Makin managed to escape by parachute. They became POW. The other crew members were killed and buried at Crooswijk.

Do you have more information about this person? Inform us!

Sources