Letter to Mrs Albon from the Air Ministry

Letter dated 28 April 1945 from the Air Ministry informing Mrs Albon that her husband Flying Officer Eric Albon is now officially presumed to be dead.

Flying Officer Eric Albon was a bomb aimer with No. 78 Squadron on Halifaxes. He failed to return from an operation to Amiens in which he was flying in Halifax LV820 on 12 June 1944. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. His aircraft crashed into the middle of a German convoy, killing around 50 German soldiers.