Hannah, Anthony James
Personal Information
Rank | Sgt |
Forename(s) | Anthony James |
Surname | Hannah |
Gender | M |
Age | 20 |
Decorations | |
Date of Death | 24-04-1941 |
Next of Kin | Son of James Alexander Hannah and Sybil Maud Hannah. |
Aircraft Information
Aircraft | Bristol Blenheim IV |
Serial Number | Z5795 |
Markings | OM-M |
Memorial Information
Burial/Memorial Country | United Kingdom |
Burial/Memorial Place | Runnymede Memorial |
Grave Reference | Panel 64. |
Epitaph |
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase | 2 |
Panel Number | 176 |
Enlistment Information
Service Number | 40738 |
Service | Royal New Zealand Air Force |
Group | 2 |
Squadron | 107 |
Trade | Observer/ Air Bomber |
Country of Origin | New Zealand |
Other Memorials
Location | Church of St. Andrew, Little Massingham, Norfolk |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Roll of Honour in Wooden Case |
Memorial Text | Roll of Honour to those who served at RAF Little Massingham during WW2, including 107 Sqn |
Location | Adjacent to Northern Perimeter of Airfield, Wattisham, Suffolk |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Stone Memorial with inscribed Marble Tablets |
Memorial Text | A memorial to those who served at RAF Wattisham during WW2, including 107 Sqn, who along with 110 Sqn delivered the first air raids of the War |
Miscellaneous Information
Attached to Coastal Command at the time |
The War Poet, Flt Lt Anthony Richardson RAFVR, dedicated a poem to this crew in his second book of poetry "These-Our Children" published in 1943. “AFTERMATH (For Mac and his crew)”. For whom lie dead in Kristiansand And buried by a foreign hand Can be no scent of Scottish seas, Nor tang of fir upon the breeze, No sight of Dundee's chimney stacks. Indeed, their earth-dimmed hearing lacks Sound of the pipes upon the hills, Sound of the rivers and the rills, Nor all the whisperings of the Usk Can follow them into the dusk; And their cold fingers cannot touch The Fifeshire girls they loved as much As any friend, who made his way Across the sky that fatal day. And yet there only lies between Their hearts and mine the grey and green Dark Northern sea. How should we fail To clasp our hands across a veil That scarce divides their lives and mine, And is so slight and frail and fine That still I hear them call to me Across two hundred miles of sea? |
Casualty Pack Number Find Out More
AIR 81/6054 (P358619/41) |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The National Archives
Record of Events (Operational Record Book) AIR 27/842/8 |
Summary of Events (Operational Record Book) AIR 27/842/7 |
Fellow Servicemen
Last Operation Information
Start Date | 24-04-1941 |
End Date | 24-04-1941 |
Takeoff Station | Leuchars |
Day/Night Raid | Day |
Operation | Shipping sweep |
Reason for Loss | Crashed near Kristiansand, Norway while on a shipping sweep. Believed to have been shot down. All three airmen in the crew died and were not recovered. |