Search for relatives of World War Two RAF hero from Leeds
An amateur historian from the Netherlands is seeking relatives of a 28-year-old RAF gunner from Leeds who was killed along with five crew members when their Halifax bomber was shot down during World War Two.
Robert Ellenkamp, of Vorden near Arnhem, has launched a bid to trace relatives of all six victims, who are buried in war graves at the cemetery in his hometown.
Only one member of the seven man crew survived after parachuting from the stricken Halifax before it crashed in Vorden at around 3am on March 30 1943.
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Hide AdMr Ellenkamp contacted the YEP after the War Graves Commission told him that one of the crew members who died - Flight Sergeant Albert Heptonstall - was from Leeds.